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: Searches
Searches is a reflective essays that explores how the tools we use daily have become mirrors, magnifiers, and even editors of our identities.
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Review and Summary: Moral Ambition
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman explores how purpose, privilege, and action can shape a better world through realistic idealism.
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Review: Childhood, Youth, Dependency
Childhood, Youth, Dependency is a memoir of growing up as a girl in a working-class family in 1950s Denmark.
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Review and Summary: The Ideological Brain
What if your political beliefs were shaped by your brainās wiring? The Ideological Brain reveals the hidden roots of ideology and identity.
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Review and Summary: Chatter
Your inner voice isnāt the enemy, it just needs better direction. Chatter rewired how I talk to myself, and it might do the same for you.
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Review and Summary: Thinking Through Writing
Turn your thoughts into great writing with Thinking Through Writing. Learn how to write better and think smarter.
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Review: The Hill We Climb
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman offers beautifully written words and powerful hope when you need it in today’s chaotic world.
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Review and Summary: Life in Three Dimensions
Is there more to life than happiness or meaning? Life in Three Dimensions presents psychological richness as a third path to live fully.
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Review and Summary: The Art of Change
Feeling stuck in a fast-changing world? The Art of Change shows how shifting your mindset helps you grow, adapt, and lead with confidence.
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Review and Summary: Hate the Game
Hate the Game equips readers with savvy strategies to beat the odds in capitalism, offering empowering insights in an approachable style.
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Review: The Wild Why
Curiosity and wonder take center stage in The Wild Why. What if slowing down could unlock a deeper connection to life?
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Review and Summary: Atlas of the Heart
Think you know your emotions? Atlas of the Heart uncovers the gaps in our emotional vocabulary and why naming our feelings matters.
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Review and Summary: The Importance of Being Educable
Is intelligence enough? The Importance of Being Educable explores how human educability shapes the future.
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Review and Summary: The Lessons of History
The Lessons of History shares timeless insights on how the past shapes our world. Itās a thought-provoking and concise read.
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Review and Summary: Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Greenās Everything Is Tuberculosis reveals how injustice, not medicine, keeps a curable disease alive today.
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Review: The Anthropocene Reviewed
Is humanity a masterpiece or a catastrophe? John Greenās The Anthropocene Reviewed explores our impact with wit and wisdom.
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Review and Summary: The Utopia of Rules
Is bureaucracy quietly ruling our lives? David Graeberās The Utopia of Rules exposes the absurdities and why we may never escape it.
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Review: Inquire Within
I never thought poetry was for me until Inquire Within changed everything. These poems left me speechless.
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.
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie