Author: Sekar Writes
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A Reader’s Reflection: Before the Social Media
What did reading before social media give me? Looking back on a lifetime of reading, I found a kind of luck no algorithm could ever give me.
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From Seed Tray to Pot: My Complete Potting Up Seedlings Diary
My first time potting up seedlings, simplified. The steps that turned tiny sprouts into strong tomato, chili, and basil plants.
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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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May 2026 Reading Wrap-Up: A Slower Month in Books
May handed me fewer books but two that wouldn’t let go. A biography that made me angry and a line about writing I had to read multiple times.
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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.
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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: Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
A father writes to his son about life, love, and everything in between. Backman makes the little things feel enormous.
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Literary Journaling: The Reading Habit That Healed Me
in Reading LifeLiterary journaling is how I write alongside my reading . It has strengthened my love of books and given me a little clarity.
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Review: Bibliotherapy
Reading does more than entertain us. How does a good book carry us through hard times? Bibliotherapy reveals how stories truly heal.
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Review: My Dreadful Body
My Dreadful Body is Djabbarova’s memoir told through eleven body parts, each one shaped by chronic illness and Azerbaijani tradition.
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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.
