BATB score 9/10 🥹 Best as: honesty, if I have had her psychiatrist and had to endure these psychiatrist’s advices / conversations, I would have commit suicide too #RIP Best to: Korean psychiatrists is biased to the importance of keeping up with work you hate, guilt tripping quitting work, and ideal women’s appearances ie. Korean fat camp Best for: tough to be Korean Best quotes: “Do you think this depression, this helplessness, decreases interest or curiosity or fun in life?

BATB score: 6/10 🤔 a BATB re-read in memory of Baek Sehee #RIP Best to: we don’t know why Baek Sehee passed away at 35 years old though I do hope she passed away peacefully or at the very least at peace finally BATB lingering thought: from re-reading her book on her mental struggles - persistent depressive disorder - and her POV on free death, you have your suspicions but it doesn’t matter Best as: if that’s really the case, according to the details of the book, I don’t thin

BATB score: 8/10 😊 Best as: damn, sometimes we forget that Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education activist, is just a girl nothing special and she deserves to just be a girl nothing special Best to: a coming of age memoir of a Pakistani girl in Oxford University in love Best for: you have to know who Malala Yousafzai is and you should have read “I Am Malala” book first Best quotes: “As if the worst thing that ever happened to me was the most interesting part of my life.” “To

BATB score: 9/10 Best as: a diary of a doctor in palliative care guiding the dying through their last moments Best to: you know how we can only die once, and so we really can’t predict nor prepare how it would be (even those peaceful deaths), worst yet, those who have experienced full death can not come back #resurrection and share their learnings; and so there’s lot of anxiety on the leading days to death as a dying novice BATB linger thought: most common question is will it

BATB score: 3/10 😪 Best as: a DIY manual on how to navigate oneself through life’s challenging moments ie. when feeling left out, when feeling like an imposter, with grieve, with negative self-criticism, friendships, regrets, etc Best for: aliens 👽 trying to impersonate humans 🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️ Best to: like a supportive mentor giving you unsubstantiated advice through life BATB lingering thought: Dr. Julie Smith, were you in a rush to publish a second book to leverage the good

BATB score: 9.5/10 🥹 reader discretion advised not an easy read, book is trying to make a very unpopular difficult point, not early retirement but never retire to fight for a cause for the betterment of the world 👏 💯 Best to: are you team Gandhi or team Greta Thunberg; are you pure zen 🧘‍♀️ for self or passionate activist 🏃‍♀️ for humankind? “Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place. It’s a longing to make a difference - and to build a legacy t

BATB score: 5/10 🧘‍♀️ reader discretion advised nothing on meditation Best as: 28 mini-chapters to be read over 28 days on how to live life a little bit lighter ; yet, mediocre daily mini-lessons 😴 Best as: free basic therapy Best for: anxious people Best quotes: “It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are.” “Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder, harnessed for productivity.” “There’s no authority with the power to demand that

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 reader discretion advised book recommended by a renowned leader - you motherf$cker, you are dead to me! Best as: basic. on not HOW? but NOW! go start your business Best for: junior entrepreneurs BATB summary: about what business should I start? “What’s the most painful / valuable problem you can solve for people that you also have passion for and/or unique expertise in, solve for the largest niche possible that you belong to and understand.” BATB lingerin

BATB score: 1/10 😤 Best to: Hawkeye, you are an actor and not an author; writing is not a good career path for you; your writing style is annoying Best as: just watch the 60-seconds tiktok video on Jeremy Renner’s snowplow incident; yes, he almost died, yes, he is okay now, yes, he is grateful Best for: you mentioned on page 1 that you didn’t want to write this book, yeah, you shouldn’t BATB lingering thought: aiyah, another celebrity writing a book to squeeze out some passi

BATB score: 8/10 reader discretion advised this is not a book, this is a white-paper research BATB summary: key point of the book > you weren’t allowed to explore and be your true self as a child, you model the ‘good boys good girls’ that your parents wanted you to be, all in exchange for parental ‘unconditional’ love; you were smart / gifted enough to comply, and thus, you grew up depressed and broken from living somebody else’s ‘good boys good girls’ life for no one but yo

BATB score: 6/10 🤝 content is quite common sense for millennials Best as: once Gen X workforce retires, roughly 2030, dear millennials it’s our time to rise up and enforce work life separation! 4-day work week💥 unlimited leave day 💥 work as a means to an end 💥 attack! Best for: millennials in the workforce, we are the adults in the room now Best to: millennials leaders to have a social media presence, awareness about diversity, equity, and inclusion, leadership with trans

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 Best for: female 30+ years old reminiscing those good old days and questioning what does the future holds Best as: a millennial’s memoir about those younger sexier years going on Tinder dates BATB lingering thought: damn it, yes, Tinder was super fun for Millennials and no longer relevant for Gen Z 😭 Best to: it’s more about that few bffs that you have for life, heartfelt enjoyable read Best quotes: “You have to choose which you’d rather be: the woman who

BATB score: 7/10 👏 good effort reader discretion advised another ex-googler leaving a “dream job” due to burnout pivoted to writing a book about aspirational wellness; you might live a dream life, but whose dream is it? BATB lingering thought: Anne-Laure Le Cunff, ex-googler, is a neuroscientist now 🤯 Best to: the first 1/3 of the book was a 10/10 on why KPIs are harmful; nothing in life is on a positive linear trajectory duh 🙄 likeas this book everything just went downhi

BATB score: 1/10 🙄 a complete waste of money and time Best as: the minute by minute recollection of the murder of four University of Idaho students back in November 2022 Best for: unnecessary to read unless you are super invested or related to this particular murder some way some how Best to: aiyah, author James Patterson, you published this book just in time for Bryan Kohberger sentencing July 23 2025 - verdict was four consecutive life sentences without parole; aiyah, you

BATB score: 6/10 🙄 Best to: mental illness runs in the family from alcoholic mother, to bipolar brother, to two siblings committing suicide BATB lingering thought: interesting, mental illnesses have been around since 1980s, has it gotten worse or just more vocal or both Best as: a memoir written by Meg Kissinger for Meg Kissinger to reminisce and make peace with everything Best for: it would have been more enjoyable if you knew the Kissinger, if not it’s too long and wordy B

BATB score: 5/10 🫠 Best for: the cute illustrations 💯 BATB lingering thought: text content wise, extreme meh 😑 Best to: depressed korean gen z unable to truly acknowledge that one is depressed due to korean value for high productivity and respected norm to those who can tolerate shit Best as: a gift for a depressed gen z; not that the gen z will read it but at least the book cover is instagrammable Best quotes: “believing that certain unhappiness was better than uncertain

BATB score: 8/10 👍 Best as: culture marketing playbook #legit Best to: everything in life is marketing - religion, music, global warming, everything Best for: marketers - “start with the soul and end with the sale” because “We were looking for fans when we should have been looking for believers.” BATB lingering thought: “If Thanksgiving is the day that we reflect on all that we have, then Black Friday is the day that we realize we don’t have enough.” damn, imagine a marketin

BATB score: 9/10 🤔 Best as: workaholism is not only / not just putting extra hours at work, it’s a toxic mental illness Best for: anyone who can relate > “Workaholism involves that feeling in the pit of your stomach that you can’t rest, that you ought to be working all the time. Workaholism also involves feeling guilty and anxious when you are not working. It’s the fact that even if you are not physically doing work, you are thinking about that email you should send, mulling

BATB score: 2/10 🙄 Best as: this is not a book; it’s a collection of individual pieces of writings and interviews of other people talking about “stupidity” Best to: the more you read the more redundant it is; you start to question yourself, why the hell are you reading this book? Best for: anyone who appreciate it’s title and cover; that’s about it BATB lingering thought: dear future self, when writing our own book one day, make sure of a killer title and appealing cover des

BATB score: 8/10 🥹 Best to: words of wisdom that is not forced down your throat Best as: BATB re-read and it still feels like a grandma’s warm hug; that fuzzy feeling that makes your heart mellow - melting marshmallow Best for: any mature adult who just needs a grandma’s loving embrace - grandma made soft chocolate chip cookie from the freezer heated in the microwave for a few seconds eaten on a kitchen towel on the sofa while watching Jeopardy! BATB lingering thought: Oprah