Sekar Writes
A Collection of (Mostly Nonfiction) Books Review and Personal Notes
Welcome!
Take a look around my blog, where I bring you book reviews filled with knowledges and favorite quotes. Alongside my literary explorations, I share personal stories and some side projects.
Latest Nonfiction Book Reviews
Check out my nonfiction book reviews, featuring thoughts, summaries, and favorite quotes.
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Review and Summary: The Certainty Trap
What if being ārightā is holding us back? The Certainty Trap reveals how questioning our beliefs can unlock understanding and unity.
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Review and Summary: On Tyranny
Feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world? On Tyranny offers powerful lessons from history to inspire action and protect democracy.
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Review: A Liveable Future is Possible
Noam Chomskyās “A Liveable Future is Possible” talks about AI, politics, and environmental challenges in a compelling interview collection.
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Review and Summary: The Tyranny of Experts
Why does poverty persist? The Tyranny of Experts reveals the bold truth: the poor lack rights to shape their futures.
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Review and Summary: Do Nothing
Stuck in the grind? Do Nothing reveals why weāre obsessed with busyness and how to reclaim a healthier balance.
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Review and Summary: The New Menopause
Why is menopause so misunderstood? The New Menopause offers relatable insights and science-backed advice to spark the conversation.
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Review and Summary: The Serviceberry
The Serviceberry rethinks abundance and generosity through natureās wisdom, offering a refreshment on how we give and take.
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Review and Summary: Bullshit Jobs
Are we trapped in meaningless work just to feel worthy? Bullshit Jobs challenges everything we believe about work and purpose.
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Review and Summary: Seven Deadly Sins
Ever wondered why we act the way we do? 7 Deadly Sins reveals how biology shapes our so-called ‘sins’, challenging what we thought we knew.
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Review and Summary: Against Technoableism
Against Technoableism makes you rethink what inclusion truly means. This eye-opening book challenges how we see disability and technology.
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Review and Summary: The Dawn of Mind
The Dawn of Mind explores the idea that all life is conscious, beyond just brains. Ready to rethink consciousness?
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Review and Summary: Wintering
Wintering sees tough times as seasons to embrace, not just survive. Its poetic take offers a new way to look at lifeās challenges.
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Review and Summary: The Resistance Training Revolution
Build fitness routine with The Resistance Training Revolution, offering guidance on resistance training, intuitive eating, and home workouts.
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Review and Summary: An Immense World
Ever wondered how animals see, hear, or feel the world? An Immense World takes you on a journey through their unique senses.
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Review and Summary: Raised to Obey
Is education a path to empowerment or control? Raised to Obey questions the true purpose behind todayās systems.
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Review and Summary: Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass beautifully weaves science with indigenous wisdom, offering powerful insights into our connection with nature.
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Review: The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
A collection of Graberās essays discussing topics that people usually ignore and unconsciously significantly affect our life.
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Review and Summary: How To Make The Best Coffee At Home
Learn coffee-making tips and perfect your brewing style. Ideal book for beginners bringing cafƩ-quality coffee home.
Browse Nonfiction Books by Specific Genre
Have a specific book topic in mind?
Youāll likely find it in these categories!
- Biographies and Memoirs (32)
- Biology and Life Sciences (12)
- Child Development and Parenting (13)
- Climate Change (2)
- Cooking and Culinary (3)
- Critical Thinking and Research Skills (15)
- Data and Statistics (8)
- Economics (6)
- Education and Learning (10)
- Essays (26)
- Evolutionary Biology (6)
- Fitness and Human Performance (23)
- Health and Medicine (30)
- Leadership and Career (8)
- Life Transitions (11)
- Linguistics (4)
- Literature (2)
- Luck and Chance (3)
- Mathematics (2)
- Mindfulness (3)
- Nature (21)
- Neuroscience (13)
- Poetry (15)
- Politics and Society (41)
- Productivity (25)
- Psychology and Behavioral Science (49)
- Science (44)
- Self-Development (78)
- Technology and AI (10)
- UI/UX (2)
- Women's Studies (6)
- Writing (9)
From Facts to Fiction
Nonfiction teaches me about the world, but fiction helps me feel it.
Every review comes with the quotes I saved ā maybe you’ll want to save them too.
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Review: Atmosphere
Atmosphere tells what happens when ambition burns bright: the sacrifice, the growth, and the real cost of dreams.
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Review: At Night All Blood is Black
This Booker Prize winner exposes the true cost of war: how it destroys humanity and feeds the machinery of colonialism.
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Review: A Man Called Ove
A grumpy widower’s plan to die keeps getting interrupted. A Man Called Ove is a funny, heartbreaking story of grief and love.
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Review: Small Comfort
Five stories about money, ambition, and the dreams we hide. Small Comfort is full of bitter truths most of us are never taught.
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Review: Departure(s)
Departure(s) has a beginning, an ending, and a hole where the middle should be, and three people whose memories bend the truth.
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Review: The Words that Remain
A man holds a love letter for fifty years but can’t read a word of it. The Words That Remain is a heartbreaking story of love and time lost.
Life in the Margins
Here’s what else you’ll find on this blog.
Reading Life
- Snapshots of my reading life: the habits, the tracking, and everything around the books.
Journaling
- Writing is how I make sense of things. A look at my journaling practice: how I do it, why I do it, and what it’s given me.
Fresh Flower Care
- There’s something grounding about tending to fresh flowers. My personal notes on keeping them beautiful and alive for longer.
Home Gardening
- Growing things at home with a lot of curiosity. A record of my small gardening experiments, wins and failures included.
Life in Helsinki, Finland
- Living in Helsinki has shaped how I read, think, and move through the world. A little window into daily life in the north.
Hi, I am Sekar!
My passion for reading (at least) one book a week fuels my love for books and drives me to share the insights with others.
Medical science by training, curious about everything else. Here I share my hobbies and the things life teaches me.
Feel free to reach out and join me in celebrating books and all the small joys that make life fuller.
Books let us know we’re not the center of the universe; the universe has many centers.
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie