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: There Lives A Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die
Haunting, honest, and beautifully translated, The Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die captures the deepest parts of life and feeling.
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Review: Ordinary Time
Staying isn’t always easy but it can be meaningful. Ordinary Time shares personal essays on faith, place, and life in the quiet middle.
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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 brain’s wiring? The Ideological Brain reveals the hidden roots of ideology and identity.
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Review and Summary: Chatter
Your inner voice isn’t 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. It’s a thought-provoking and concise read.
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Review and Summary: Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green’s 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 Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed explores our impact with wit and wisdom.
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 (79)
- 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 — maybe you’ll want to save them too.
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Review: Orbital
In Orbital, Samantha Harvey writes about our planet, human anxiety, and the unstoppable passage of time. Each page feels timeless.
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Falling in Love with Fredrik Backman’s Writing Through My Friends
From watching A Man Called Otto on a flight to reading My Friends, I share my first experience with Fredrik Backman’s writing.
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What Fahrenheit 451 Teaches Us About Freedom and Modern Life
What makes Fahrenheit 451 a must-read classic for our times? The story of burning books reveals truths that still echo in today’s world.
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Why I Added a Fiction Category to My Nonfiction Book Blog
I started this blog for nonfiction books but something changed along the way. This is why I added a fiction section in this book blog.
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How Classic Fiction Helped My Reading Burnout
I read nonfiction nonstop until it started making me anxious and burned out. Here’s how fiction classics helped me find calm and comfort.
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Review and Quotes: Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis hit me differently every time I read it. Here’s how it made me reflect on change, worth, and being human.
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