BATB score: 10/10 🥹 wow, Mitch Albom, you did it again! 👏 Best to: wow what a story, a little bit of fiction, a lot of non-fiction, written gracefully, emotionally narrated, engaging storytelling structure, happy closure ending, oh so beautiful 🫠 Best as: “It was a time in human history where the world was cleaved in two, those doing nothing about the horror and those trying to stop it. A world of light and dark.” and unfortunately, this is what is happening today in Gaza

BATB score: 10/10 💯👏 *have I been living under a rock to not have come across this 1997 masterpiece? OMG* Jean-Dominique Bauby life was soaring as Editor-in-Chief of French magazine Elle. In 1995, Bauby, 43, had a stroke that resulted with locked-in syndrome where his whole body is paralyzed and he could only blink his left eyelid. His mind was 100% fully functioning but everything else is frozen. A speech therapist reads out the alphabet where Bauby would blink at the lett

BATB score: 10/10 🤯 *reader discretion advised* BATB does not like fiction and rarely rate the work of fiction fairly but wow oh wow boy oh boy goodie 💙 Best as: a page turner thriller, suspense, cringey, twisties and turns book 🔑 Best to: oh thank god that it does not end on a cliffhanger but is complete on it’s own - good night 💤 sweet dreams Best for: who is Freida McFadden? why have I not heard of you? where have I been? BATB lingering thought: Freida McFadden has wri

BATB score: 10/10 👏 *reader discretion advised* this book is a 10/10 but it is not for the faint-hearted - definitely not for everyone; it’s sick, it’s psycho, it’s gross, it’s traumatic, BUT it’s a true story Best as: nothing that Netflix can ever make is scarier than true life itself 💀 BATB lingering thought: thank you for reminding me that this world is a scary place; people are the scariest living things Best to: Gregg Olsen is a journalist and he writes true crimes; le

BATB score: 10/10 🤩 omg Freida McFadden! you did it again! 👏 Best to: just when I thought I can predict your ways of writing and outsmart your suspense, you kept me on my tip toes 💯 unable to put this book down must finish reading in one sitting Best as: Freida McFadden is a physician specializing in brain injury and is a splendid author of addictive, unpredictable thriller fictions BATB lingering thought: oh thank god that you didn’t end each book on a painful cliffhanger

BATB Score: 10/10 🎈 *reader discretion advised: 10/10 but not for everyone. esp not for the faint hearted; thriller, sick, psycho, twisted, gut-wrenching, perfection* Best as: when a doctor, Dr. Lucinda Berry, trauma psychologist + researcher in childhood trauma, becomes an author in disturbing psychological thrillers; it’s really good! Best for: anyone who is tired of self-help books BATB lingering thought: why can’t we just read because it’s fun? why does every pastime act

BATB Score: 10/10 👏 Freida McFadden, girlfriend, you did it again! Best as: wow what a come back International Thriller Writers Award; book published Oct 2024, ending on a high note 🎵 that perfectly concludes 2024 👏 Best to: know that Freida McFadden is a pen name; the real author is a physician specializing in brain injury; this serial murder mystery with all the details of the human anatomy is truly juicy Best for: if you are in to fiction, thriller, psychopaths, murders

BATB score: 10/10 👑 written by senior partners at Mckinsey (so you know it’s expensive in-depth research) Best as: a conclusive playbook on what makes a great CEO, inclusive of techniques on how to onboard oneself, manage board members, motivate the team, run a business, retired yourself, and keep sane as CEO 🥹 Best for: if you are in close proximity to a CEO, reporting into a CEO, working closely with a CEO, and/or scouting to climb the damn corporate ladder for that CEO r

BATB score: 10/10 👏 *Daniel H Pink is my favorite non-fiction author* Best as: nerdy, scientific, experimental, behavioral economics, entertaining, fun read Best for: you need to digest and think of further optimizing implementation from these insights or else it’s just useless fun read Best to: knowing that it is the last piece of chocolate, that last piece is the most yummy nom nom Best quotes: “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your st

BATB score: 10/10 🥹 Best as: finally a book that explains mothers, mother-daughter issues, and how daughter can work through them 👏 Best to: extremely practical with checklist to verify whether you do have a narcissistic mother and whether you have been an affected daughter ie. Do you feel valued by your mother for what you do, rather than for who you are? Best for: daughters who never felt that they were ever good enough for their mothers 🥹 Best quotes: “Because good girl