Sekar Writes
A Collection of Nonfiction Books Review and Personal Notes
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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 side projects featuring health insights and intriguing data analysis.
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
W.H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays
Latest Book Reviews
Check out my nonfiction book reviews, featuring thoughts, summaries, and favorite quotes.
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Review: The Beginning Comes After the End
in Book ReviewThe world has been changing faster than most of us can keep up with, and The Beginning Comes After the End wants you to notice.
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Review and Summary: In Search of Now
in Book ReviewWhat does science say about the present moment? In Search of Now looks at time, perception, and how our brains build the feeling of “now.”
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Review: Flourish
in Book ReviewOur fast culture pulls attention away from what truly matters. Flourish reflects on a meaningful life that we should create together.
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Review and Summary: The Score
in Book ReviewWhat happens when numbers decide what matters in life? The Score reflects on value capture where meaning and learning turn into metrics.
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Review and Summary: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
in Book ReviewPedagogy of the Oppressed shows why learning should build critical thinking, voice, and humanity, not just careers.
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Review: Letters to Cristina
in Book ReviewLetters to Cristina is the personal story behind Paulo Freire’s ideas, how his life in Brazil shaped his vision of education and democracy.
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Review: Create Dangerously
in Book ReviewCreate Dangerously is an essay about art, freedom, and truth in hard times. It’s a challenging read that still critically urgent today.
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Review: Hyperpolitics
in Book ReviewAnton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics explores why politics today feels louder, faster, and more intense than ever, yet real change seems out of reach.
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Review: The Story of a Heart
in Book ReviewTwo children are connected by a life-saving heart transplant in this true story about organ donation and the bond between grief and hope.
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Review and Summary: Art Cure
in Book ReviewArt Cure is a science-backed book that explains why creativity might be the missing key to your well-being.
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Review and Summary: Technofeudalism
in Book ReviewHas capitalism already been replaced by something more powerful? Technofeudalism explores how cloud capital crisis reshaped our economy.
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Review and Summary: How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
in Book ReviewElif Shafak explores echo chambers, collective narcissism, education, and the crisis of meaning shaping our uncertain world today.
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Review: The Road to Wigan Pier
in Book ReviewThe 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 and Summary: The Other Side of Change
in Book ReviewThe 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
in Book ReviewAs AI and automation reshape the world, this book explores why human excellence remains our greatest competitive advantage.
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Review and Summary: Mattering
in Book ReviewMattering explores what makes people feel valued and why that feeling can disappear, even in busy, successful lives.
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Review: Mother Mary Comes to Me
in Book ReviewMother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy is a memoir about motherhood, family, political injustice, and her most famous literary works.
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Review: Moonlight Elk
in Book ReviewMoonlight Elk is a nature-rooted memoir of Green’s life, inviting readers to reconnect with the overlooked beauty of the natural world.
“.. why I inhale books like oxygen: I’m grateful for my one life, but I’d prefer to live a thousand–and my favorite books allow me to experience more on the page than I ever could in my actual life.”
Anne Bogel, I’d Rather Be Reading
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Hi, I am Sekar!
My passion for reading one book a week fuels my love for books and drives me to share my insights with others.
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Books let us know we’re not the center of the universe; the universe has many centers.
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie