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: How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton Christensen shares ways to measure and ensure on how to live a balance and successful professional and personal life that is valued by happiness and integrity rather than materials-oriented.
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Review: Weapons of Math Destruction, How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Understanding big data’s flaws through Cathy O’Neil’s insightful analysis by realizing the impact of unfair algorithms on people’s lives.
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Review and Summary: Option B
Option B is about how to build resilience not only after we lost our loved ones, but also for all kinds of setbacks that will happen to us.
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Review and Summary: Indistractable
A book guide to maximize technology benefits and maintain healthy relationships without succumbing to attention-grabbing tactics.
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Review and Summary: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Dr. Julie Smith shares science-based mental health tips to help you navigate tough times, understand your emotions, and grow stronger.
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Review and Summary: Building a Second Brain
Struggling to keep up with endless information? Building a Second Brain shares smart ways to organize ideas and boost productivity.
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Review and Summary: Hyperfocus
Struggling to stay productive in a fast-paced world? Learn how your brain works and use simple tricks to get more done in less time.
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Review and Summary: Essentialism
Embrace a life philosophy of ‘less but better’ for more impactful and effective living. Explore the core principles of Essentialism.
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Highlights and Review: Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg shares her journey, tackling gender equality and the challenges women face in stepping into leadership roles.
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Highlights and Review: Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits isnāt just another self-help guide. It shows how small daily habits can lead to big, lasting change in life.
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Review and Summary: The Art of Statistics
A book to understand why statistics matter, mistakes, and the fatal impact if we belittling the method that we pick for data analysis.
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Review and Summary: Digital Minimalism
A book offering therapy for digital addiction, redirecting focus from social media to real-life experiences.
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Highlight and Review: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
If you follow Naval Ravikant in Twitter, then you will come across some of his tweets in this book. However, this book is the deeper insights from Naval that show us his perspectives in life, which is thought-provoking and kind of refreshing.
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Highlight and Review: Surrounded by Setbacks
Tired of setbacks despite your best efforts? This book helps you navigate lifeās challenges and turn them into success without the clichĆ©s.
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Review and Summary: Quiet
In Quiet, Susan Cain explains how introvert or extrovert act socially different and how both personalities can work together in harmony.
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Review and Summary: Think Again
I remember that I was stunned by what Bill Gates said on Inside Billās Brain where he said the most terrifying thing for him is if his brain no longer works. This book successfully makes me aware why thinking matters and how come someone as inspired as Bill Gates feels scared if he cannot think…
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Review Memilih (Menjadi Investor) Bahagia
Penulis: Wuddy Warsono, CFA. Jumlah halaman: 224 halaman Diterbitkan tanggal: 7 April 2021 After reading the book title, I believe that some of you will think that this book is all about economy, investing, trading psychology, and other sub topic related to those kind of things. Surprisingly, this book is much more than those. What…
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Review: The Art of Thinking Clearly
The Art of Thinking Clearly menjelaskan 99 bias kognitif yang mempengaruhi kesalahan manusia dalam mengambil keputusan dan memandang hidup.
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.
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