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 Bad Science: Mitos Detoksifikasi dan Senam Otak
Penulis: Ben Goldacre. Tanggal rilis: September 2008. Jumlah halaman: 338 halaman. Ben Goldacre adalah seorang psikiatris dan kolumnis di The Guardian. Di buku ini, Ben mengkritisi media, perusahaan, atau beberapa orang yang melakukan overklaim terhadap sejumlah produk kesehatan dan gaya hidup sehat dengan menggunakan kalimat dan cerita yang terdengar saintifik. Padahal, informasi tersebut dipaparkan oleh…
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: The Forty Rules of Love
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak tells a layered story of love, faith, and transformation across centuries.
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Review: There Are Rivers in the Sky
There Are Rivers in the Sky unfolds three characters living in different times and places, reveals how deeply they are connected by rivers.
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Review: On the Calculation of Volume I
On the Calculation of Volume I is a haunting time-loop novella where November 18 repeats for one woman. Time itself feels broken.
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Review: I Who Have Never Known Men
Set in an unsettling world, this dystopian novel centres on humanity and survival. The story reveals a world that feels alien yet familiar.
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Review: Água Viva
Água Viva is a short book in a flowing, stream-of-thought, and poetry style. It reflects on the life that moves through everything.
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Review: Kairos
Kairos by Erpenbeck looks at alternating perspectives, emotional distance, and the link between personal relationships and political history.
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