Author: Sekar Writes
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Review: The Safekeep
A Dutch home in 1961 turns tense when Isabel is forced to host her brotherās girlfriend. A story where desire and friction rise in every page.
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Review: The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier takes us deep into 1930s industrial England, marked by coal dust, overcrowded homes, and mass unemployment.
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Review: The Island of Missing Trees
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is a moving story of love, war, exile, and a fig tree that remembers what history tries to erase.
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Review and Summary: The Other Side of Change
The Other Side of Change explores how we deal with loss, identity shifts, and unexpected change through real-life stories and psychology.
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Review and Summary: The Way of Excellence
As AI and automation reshape the world, this book explores why human excellence remains our greatest competitive advantage.
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Review: In Ascension
In Ascension follows a marine biologist as climate change, deep-sea research, and space exploration collide.
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Review: The Wedding People
A woman at her lowest checks into a hotel and unexpectedly walks into a wedding. The Wedding People shows how strangers pull her back.
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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 and Summary: Mattering
Mattering explores what makes people feel valued and why that feeling can disappear, even in busy, successful lives.
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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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January 2026 Reading Recap
Looking back at my January 2026 reading: instinctive picks, library finds, and two standout books that surprised me early in the year.












