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.
Me, More or Less
These lists are pretty much describe me in a nutshell.
Latest Nonfiction Book Reviews
Check out my nonfiction book reviews, featuring thoughts, summaries, and favorite quotes.
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Review and Summary: Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks invites us to embrace the present moment and pursue what truly brings us joy within our finite time.
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Review and Summary: Range
Range presents the fact that our modern lives demand a broader perspective and the need for connections across diverse domains.
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Review and Summary: Lost Connections
Lost Connections talks about the causes and cures for people with depression and anxiety related to one’s life circumstances.
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Review: Science Fiction
In Science Fiction, Stuart Richie reveals the hidden faults and flaws lurking in the shadows of the scientific system.
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Review: Peak Performance
Peak Performance suggests the perfect formula for growth is the harmonious interplay between stress and rest.
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Review: The Hungry Brain
In “The Hungry Brain,” Guyenet reveals refreshing insights on the field of nutrition and brain-gut correlation.
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Review: From Strength to Strength
This book is about the inevitability of life declining and we could find other meaningful sparks in our latter part of life.
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Review and Highlights: Endure
Alex Hutchinson offers insights on what actually limits us in Endure. Every part of our body, from our physical to mind, was broken down.
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Review: What’s Our Problem?
Tim Urban, observed what happens to society and spelled out his point of view on and why we believe the things we believe.
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Review and Summary: The Obesity Code
In The Obesity Code, Fung counts on hormonal problem as the main suspect of obesity, not caloric imbalance.
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Review: The Sports Gene
Sports Gene is a book to anyone who interested in human performance and sports science where it reveals the complicated nature versus nurture.
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Review and Tips: Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?
Which Comes First: Cardio or Weights? is an impeccable book that I recommend for people who just commit their journey on fitness.
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Review: The Practice of Groundedness
Brad Stulberg calls out the suspect as heroic individualism that can be overcome by practicing the principle of groundedness.
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Review: The Power of Regret
Daniel H. Pink argue that regret benefits human being. Looking at what we regret from our past, we reveal what we value the most.
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Review: The Obstacle Is The Way
Ryan Holiday divide the main ideas of this book based on how to beat obstacles with three crucial steps: perception, action, and will.
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Review and Tips: Exercised
Exercised is a book that breaking up our beliefs towards exercise and help the reader to figure out how to start moving.
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Review: Do Hard Things
Do Hard Things is a book that helps us to reconceptualize our understanding towards the damaged and old-style toughness.
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Review and Tips: Longevity… simplified
Longevity… simplified provides outstanding comprehensive and actionable guides on how to eat, exercise, and sleep well to elevate our metabolic fitness
From Facts to Fiction
Nonfiction teaches me about the world, but fiction helps me feel it.
Every review comes with the quotes I saved.
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Review: The Bright Years
The Bright Years looks like a sweet love story at first, but it hides addiction, secrets, and a family falling apart underneath.
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Review: On Earth as it is Beneath
On Earth As It Is Beneath is set in a Brazilian prison built on hidden bones, where inmates are hunted each month in a brutal survival ritual.
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Review: Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead, forced to grow up too fast amid poverty, addiction, and a broken foster system. A rich retelling of a Dickens classic.
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Review: And Every Morning the way Home Gets Longer
A grandfather is forgetting his memory. His son and grandson are left holding onto what’s slipping away in this short, aching book by Backman.
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Review: The Answer Is No
Meet Lucas, a man happy in his own world, until a frying pan changes everything in The Answer is No, Fredrik Backman’s witty short book.
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Review: The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories
Some people always want more from life than life will hand them. The Trouble with Happiness is about that ache, and the homes it wrecks.
Browse Nonfiction Books by Specific Genre
Have a specific book topic in mind?
You’ll likely find it in these categories!
- Biographies and Memoirs (33)
- 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 (27)
- 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 (80)
- Technology and AI (10)
- UI/UX (2)
- Women's Studies (6)
- Writing (9)
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 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
- Looking after fresh flowers asks me to slow down and be present. Here are my personal notes on keeping them beautiful and alive for longer.
Home Gardening
- There’s something grounding about growing things at home. Follow along with my notes as I watch things grow, season by season.
Life in Helsinki, Finland
- Living in Helsinki has shaped how I read, think, and move through the world. A little window into my 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