The Memory Cache

The Memory Cache is the personal blog site of Wayne Parker, a Seattle-based writer and musician. It features short reviews of books, movies and TV shows, and posts on other topics of current interest.

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Friday, October 28, 2022

Movie Review: Taylor Swift’s Journey to Fearless (2011). Taylor Swift.

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It’s Rock and Roll Friday again here at The Memory Cache , so today I’m highlighting a decade-old documentary and concert video of one of th...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Book Review: Flight of Passage (1997). Rinker Buck.

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Hello! As you may have noticed, I’ve been on a mini-sabbatical of sorts the past few weeks. My music and video production activities have ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Book Reviews: Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History (2008), Thomas Norman DeWolf, and The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning (2022), Ben Raines.

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Earlier today, I posted a review of The Sweetness of Water , an outstanding novel of life in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Civil...

Book Review: The Sweetness of Water (2021). Nathan Harris.

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I picked up this recent first novel by Nathan Harris, which became an immediate bestseller and an award-winner last year, based on rave revi...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

TV Review: Alaska Daily (2022). ABC.

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Our local Seattle paper, The Seattle Times , is one of a few major city newspapers nationally that is still family owned and independent. F...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Movie Review: A Call to Spy (2019). Netflix.

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In the past few decades, many of the greatest espionage secrets of the British and American governments from World War II have finally been ...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Book Review: Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires (2022). Douglas Rushkoff.

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I just finished reading this interesting new book by Douglas Rushkoff, a professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens/CUNY, who...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

TV Review: Behind Her Eyes (2021). Netflix.

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Wooh-hoo! This is a great one for the Halloween season, if you like really scary psychological thrillers that turn out (spoiler alert) to h...
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Wayne Parker
I'm Wayne Parker, a Seattle-based writer, musician, and former IT professional (now retired). My main purpose in creating this blog is to write and share short reviews of good books I've read, and good movies and TV I've seen, for your use and entertainment, as well as for my own reference. In the future, I hope to add occasional posts on other topics of interest and opinion as well. Please drop by frequently, and see what's new!
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