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: Don’t Make Me Think
Get to know web usability secrets with ‘Don’t Make Me Think’ by Steve Krug, a timeless guide for creating user-friendly websites.
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Review and Summary: Learning How to Learn
Boost memory and learning productivity with practical insights in ‘Learning How to Learn’. Perfect for students and lifelong learners.
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Review and Summary: Never Enough
Never Enough is a guide on nurturing kids in high-pressure environments, focusing on the importance of feeling valued.
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Review and Summary: Fluke
Fluke shows how small things shape our lives and why luck and simplicity matter in Fluke. Klaas reveals the impact of everyday randomness.
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Review and Summary: Scarcity Brain
‘Scarcity Mindset’ tells us why we always want more. Find out how to escape this endless cycle and start enjoying your everyday life.
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Review and Summary: Refactoring UI
Refactoring UI is a beginner-friendly guidebook offering practical tips for creating visually appealing and user-friendly websites.
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Review and Summary: The Comfort Crisis
It explores the impact of excessive comfort, encouraging readers to find a balance with moderate discomfort for a happier, healthier life.
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Review and Summary: Emotional Labor
Emotional Labor highlights how emotional work, often ignored, affects women and others unfairly, and calls for a change in how it’s valued.
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Review and Summary: The Compound Effect
Find out the insightful principles of achievement, luck, and making informed choices in The Compound Effect.
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Review and Summary: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned bridges AI and life, questioning the necessity of explicit goals, and new approach to achieving goals.
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Review and Summary: The Learning Game
A revolutionary book redefining education. Find out how to empower kids for the future and gain insightful life skills as an adult.
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Review and Summary: The Right Call
Enhance your life skills by learning the art of better decision-making from athletes and coaches with Sally Jenkins’ ‘The Right Call.’
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Review and Summary: Ultra-Processed People
Ultra-Processed People talks about the effects of processed foods on health and lifestyle. Essential insights for healthy eating enthusiasts!
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Review and Summary: The Myth of Normal
This book offers key insights on the impact of trauma and stress on health, emphasizing the vital mind-body connection.
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Review and Summary: The Molecule of More
Find out how dopamine influences our passions and pursuits in The Molecule of More. A deep look into human behavior and emotions.
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Review and Summary: Same As Ever
Step into Morgan Housel’s Same As Ever, a book that resonates through changing times and makes a lasting mark.
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Review and Summary: How Not to Diet
Greger presents the latest advancements in diet and nutrition research. A must-read for foodies, health enthusiasts, and the curious alike.
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Review and Summary: Hidden Potential
Adam Grant, a renowned organizational psychologist, has once again graced us with his insights in his latest book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things. As a fan of his previous work, Think Again, which I’ve revisit annually, I anticipated the release of this new book. Now, having dug into its pages, I’m thrilled…
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: Dream Count
Dream Count tells of four Nigerian women navigating love, loss, and betrayal. A premise with a promising start, but a finish that let me down.
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Review: The Things We Never Say
The Things We Never Say is Artie’s story, a history teacher asking if life is worth staying for. A light read, heavy with all we never say.
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Review: Yesteryear
Yesteryear follows a tradwife influencer pulled into the life she markets online. A bold take on gender and faith.
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Review: Audition
Audition by Katie Kitamura is a literary fiction about identity, performance, and the cost of the roles we play.
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Review: The Correspondent
One woman. Letters that say everything. Guilt, love, and grace hidden between every line and it is entirely yours to piece together.
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Review: The Names
A son. A name. A single moment that reshapes an entire family’s fate. The Names will make you take a look back at your own life differently.
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.
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