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: Most Likely to Succeed
A book revealing how schools focus on memorizing over real-world skills, urging more creativity, problem-solving, and a passion for learning.
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Review and Summary: What Money Can’t Buy
Reconsider what should remain untouched by money as What Money Can’t Buy explores how market values are infiltrating our lives.
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Review and Summary: The Happiness Cure
Find out why our brains focus on survival in The Happiness Cure and get simple tips for feeling better daily.
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Review: Catastrophe Ethics
A book to help you face moral challenges, live true to your values, and create hope through integrity and collective action.
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Review and Summary: What Happened to You?
How do our experiences shape who we are? “What Happened to You?” shifts the focus from blame to deeper understanding.
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Review and Summary: The Body Keeps the Score
Trauma leaves marks beyond memory. The Body Keeps the Score reveals how it shapes our bodies and minds, urging us to face its impact.
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Review and Summary: Entangled Life
Step into the wild world of fungi with Entangled Life. Discover natureās secret networkers, recyclers, and mind-benders.
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Review and Summary: Hope for Cynics
Can a cynic find a spark of hope? Zakiās science-backed journey might just surprise you and turn cynicism into belief in human kindness.
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Review and Summary: Meditations for Mortals
Embrace life’s unpredictability and shift from control to acceptance for a more meaningful, fulfilling life with Meditations for Mortals.
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Review and Summary: Lenses of Humanity
Lenses of Humanity offers tools for personal growth and empathy, guiding readers toward a more inclusive world.
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Review and Summary: The Inner Clock
Align with your bodyās rhythm in The Inner Clock. Boost sleep, energy, and health with science-backed tips.
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Review and Summary: Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go help you empowers employees in owning their career development with actionable insights.
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Review and Summary: Wanting
Learn how our desires are shaped by others in Wanting, and learn to make conscious choices for genuine fulfillment and satisfaction.
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Review and Summary: From Narrow-Blinded to Open Minded
A book that invites us to embrace new perspectives, foster constructive dialogue, think critically, and take meaningful action.
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Review and Summary: The Atomic Human
Is there a part of being human that technology can’t reach? The Atomic Human explores if we’re giving away our humanity as AI grows.
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Review and Summary: 10 to 25
10 to 25 by David Yeager exposes why youth programs struggle and reveals the key to unlocking teens’ potential through smarter approaches.
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Review and Summary: Knead to Know
Explore the techniques, science, and cultural history of baking in Knead to Know, and discover baking’s evolution and impact.
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Review and Summary: Second Act
Second Act by Henry Oliver shows that it’s never too late for success, with inspiring stories and research about late bloomers.
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