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: Science Fiction
In Science Fiction, Stuart Richie reveals the hidden faults and flaws lurking in the shadows of the scientific system.
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Review: Peak Performance
Peak Performance suggests the perfect formula for growth is the harmonious interplay between stress and rest.
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Review: The Hungry Brain
In “The Hungry Brain,” Guyenet reveals refreshing insights on the field of nutrition and brain-gut correlation.
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Review: From Strength to Strength
This book is about the inevitability of life declining and we could find other meaningful sparks in our latter part of life.
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Review and Highlights: Endure
Alex Hutchinson offers insights on what actually limits us in Endure. Every part of our body, from our physical to mind, was broken down.
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Review: What’s Our Problem?
Tim Urban, observed what happens to society and spelled out his point of view on and why we believe the things we believe.
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Review and Summary: The Obesity Code
In The Obesity Code, Fung counts on hormonal problem as the main suspect of obesity, not caloric imbalance.
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Review: The Sports Gene
Sports Gene is a book to anyone who interested in human performance and sports science where it reveals the complicated nature versus nurture.
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Review and Tips: Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?
Which Comes First: Cardio or Weights? is an impeccable book that I recommend for people who just commit their journey on fitness.
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Review: The Practice of Groundedness
Brad Stulberg calls out the suspect as heroic individualism that can be overcome by practicing the principle of groundedness.
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Review: The Power of Regret
Daniel H. Pink argue that regret benefits human being. Looking at what we regret from our past, we reveal what we value the most.
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Review: The Obstacle Is The Way
Ryan Holiday divide the main ideas of this book based on how to beat obstacles with three crucial steps: perception, action, and will.
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Review and Tips: Exercised
Exercised is a book that breaking up our beliefs towards exercise and help the reader to figure out how to start moving.
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Review: Do Hard Things
Do Hard Things is a book that helps us to reconceptualize our understanding towards the damaged and old-style toughness.
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Review and Tips: Longevity… simplified
Longevity… simplified provides outstanding comprehensive and actionable guides on how to eat, exercise, and sleep well to elevate our metabolic fitness
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Review: Fundamental of Data Visualization, A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures
Fundamental of Data Visualization is a book to understand the key principles, methods, and concepts to present data in the most unbiased and inclusive way.
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Review: Calling Bullshit
This book give the readers sets of tips on how to detect the misinformation without a deep knowledge of statistics or the related field.
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Review and Summary: Life Is in the Transitions
This book is based on Feiler research called The Life Story Project where he gathered 225 life stories belong to people from different background across fifty states in the United States.
Browse Nonfiction Books by Specific Genre
Have a specific book topic in mind?
You’ll 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 — maybe you’ll want to save them too.
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Review: Playground
Four strangers, a remote island, and an ocean full of secrets. Playground is a stunning story of nature, friendship, and life’s big questions.
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Review: The Trees
Brutal murders shake the town where Emmett Till died, and the truth cuts deeper than anyone feared. The Trees is haunting and funny.
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Review: The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories
A regretful father and a dying little girl meet in one hospital room. One choice could change everything, what is a single life really worth?
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Review: Arborescence
Imagines a world where humans turn into trees as the planet grows greener and emptier. A story of nature, tech, and the cost of letting go.
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Review: Heart the Lover
Heart the Lover explores how the choices we make in youth ripple through our entire lives, for better and worse.
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Review: The Details
Through malaria and fever, a woman remembers the four people who made her. The Details shows how we’re built from the ones we love.
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