BATB score: 7/10 💵💰💸 Dear Bradley Birkenfeld, what the damn hell? All-star private wealth account manager with an 18% commission bonus, to convicted felon for fraud conspiracy sentenced to 40 months in jail, to the Guinness world record holder for the largest whistleblower payout of 104M USD, to an author of a best seller book “Lucifer’s Banker”, and a complete jerk. What the damn hell? Best to: know that this book is a lot about him Best for: account managers on a sales c

BATB score: 6/10 🤓 BATB reading level: advance max You need both IQ and EQ to read this serious research book. Best to: it’s a heavy research book about all the behavioral studies surrounding emotional intelligence (EI) from loser loners and bullies, marriage counseling, PTSD, to eating disorders #legit Best for: a nerd who didn’t have many friend back in school #thatsme Best as: “the hippocampus is crucial in recognizing a face as that of your cousin. But it is the amygdala

BATB score: 8/10 🩺 I’ve learnt a shit ton about the flaws in the healthcare sector! But this book is not a kind read for everyone. Best as: a doctor’s data driven analysis regarding how messed up the medical industry really is - from doctors not washing their hands, pregnancy labor with the old-school forceps is better than a c-section, keeping the soldiers alive within the first hour of attack, doctors’ self-defined salary - so how much do you want to get paid, to making du

BATB score: 7/10 😨💙🌀 BATB reading level: advanced Suzanne O'Sullivan is an Irish neurologist - her book title, “It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness”, is basically the one-liner summary of this book Best for: you have to be into mystery illnesses, extraordinary people, ripley’s believe it or not, doctor’s tell-all documentary, TLC tabloid shows to read this book; because it’s sick and it’s about a super niche topic but it’s so damn interesting Best to:

BATB score: 4/10 💧🌼 Okay. I am unsure on whether you wanted this book to be a behavioral economics book or an autobiography; either way the switch of sort confuses things. Best to: if you are going to read one Susan Cain book, check out “Quiet” instead Best as: the four humors are melancholic (sad), sanguine (happy), choleric (aggressive), and phlegmatic (calm); feeling alive is to feel all these Best for: people who experience fluctuations of happiness and sorrow has a hig

BATB score: 8/10 ☠️ Best for: loyal fan clubs of Atul Gawande who would like to complete all of Atul Gawande’s 4 written masterpieces 📚 Best as: did you know that sometimes doctors forget to wash their hands before conducting invasive surgery on you? Yep, that’s why the medical system and safety check and balance is loose as hell. Best to: how the solution is simply and literally a checklist to go through before every surgery, flight, investment, etc.; just a mere checklist

BATB score: 10/10 💛 An extremely heartfelt memoir about a mother’s influence on a daughter to live a dream that she never had (yet not at all the daughter’s dream) Best for: daughters with mother issues that metamorphose into forever self-doubt and low self-esteem of never being good enough Best to: quickly check “Jennette McCurdy Through the Years 2005-2014 | NickRewind”, “Sam Puckett’s Fried Chicken Addiction”, and “Sam Puckett’s Butter Sock” on Youtube to witness her chil

BATB score: 8/10 🧡 Best to: at the very least know Viola Davis as Annalise Keating aka her award-winning performances in 'How to Get Away With Murder’ OR as Aibileen Clark aka her award-winning performance in ‘The Help’ - you gotta know her to read this book Best as: reality check for aspiring actors/actresses that beyond talent, it takes good old luck to be the lucky few who made it - a lot about the works of show biz Best for: “show me a hero and I’ll show you a tragedy” B

BATB score: 6/10 😅 a fun easy chillax read Best for: people who knows who Laura Clery is, have watched her funny videos, have watched her pregnancy labor video and/or have read her first book “Idiot” Best as: “Comparative suffering has literally never helped anyone ever. Just because someone has success or money doesn’t mean they don’t struggle.” Best to: extremely funny 😆 read+listen with the audiobook narrated by Laura Clery aka the author herself Best quotes: “I liked th

BATB score: 6/10 😷 extremely heavy deep dive analysis on the pandemic that has happened and any future pandemic to happen 😴 definitely too heavy for the general public’s brains Best for: policy makers, WHO personnels, NGO leaders, ministry of health managers, and Bill Gates’ mega rich friends who are so influential that they can make a difference in this world Best to: Bill Gates to do an 18-minutes TedTalk on the content of this book instead to better appeal to the general

BATB score: 5/10 🍂 BATB Reading Level: Advanceeee Ocean Vuong is a poet and his story-tell rhythm is likeas a poem; you either love that about him or you don’t Best to: this book tries to be too many things - a memoir, history channel, animal planet, national geographic, coming of age; and touching on too many topics - immigration, war refugees, PTSD, illiteracy, racism, poverty, family, homosexuality #omg Best as: a very difficult book to write, to read, and to follow throu

BATB score: 7/10 🔥 Burnout is a company’s problem not an individual’s illness. Providing Headspace app membership and/or Modern Health zoom workshop does not constitute as “a company that has demonstrated care for employees well-being”. Best to: the causes of burnout, the measures against burnout, and the self-care needed for leadership with burnout fighting for other employees to not burnout Best for: HR and C-level leadership who wants their legacy to include “demonstrates

BATB score: 8/10 👨‍⚕️🩺🩻 *Disclaimer* I love Adam Kay and I love reading Adam Kay’s books! I believe it’s comedically therapeutic. Best to: you have to read “This is Going to Hurt” BATB 10/10 first and foremost to understand the back story of H and J, his old medical adventures as a doctor, why he gave up, and why and where he is now Best as: you know how becoming a doctor is the only occupation that our parents would acknowledge as ‘attaining success’? and how your true ha

BATB score: 8/10 🇰🇵🇰🇷 The other stuff about North Korea beyond the typical authors on defectors, starvation, reunification, and Kims. Best as: a thorough interview style qualitative research on North Korea; discussion of a capitalist movement in a communist country Best for: curious minds on/of North Korea - have you ever wondered where North Korean bought make-up? What kind of sanitary pads they are using? Do they watch porn? Best to: know that the grass is always greene

BATB score: 8.5/10 🩺🩻👩‍⚕️ *Disclaimer* In another life, I do wish to be a surgeon. I do have an unfair favoritism towards doctor/surgeon related books. Best to: Atul Gawande is exceptionally talented in being a surgeon, an author, and a researcher; living proof that you can be and you can nail so many things in one lifetime Best as: so many interesting topics from mysterious illnesses, to when doctors go wild, to real life cases - literally a day in a life of Atul Gawande

BATB score: 2/10 😒 Mariana Mazzucato, my friend, please take a chill pill; all the beautiful concepts no real world practical next steps Best for: my friend, you are saying so many things that you are not saying anything at all Best to: my friend, there were some pages that include the good stuff, how about we re-write this my friend to something more friendly? Best as: my friend, you are saying a lot of thing about the same thing just over and over again; my friend, you are

BATB score: 8/10 💕 a few weeks after Osamu Dazai wrote No Longer Human, he and his wife committed suicide by drowning in a canal near their house; that was also a week before his 39th birthday *reader discretion advised* this book is not for everyone; this book covers suicide, addiction, abuse, depression, depersonalization disorder Best to: this book is a semi-autobiography, semi-novel, semi-suicide-death-note; it’s like he is trying to tell us something, a final word to wh

BATB score: 4/10 🤷‍♀️ Best as: a casual fun chillax read about the 16 tinder dates Mark Powell has been through Best to: do not blame the Tinder platform for bad quality dates; our mission is quantity not quality - find your needle in the haystack; come come I pray for you Best for: you’ll learn nothing from reading this book; actually one thing you learn is that anyone can be an author and write about literally anything

BATB score: 4/10 🧘‍♀️ Best to: just read the first part of this book (aka the first 83 pages) the second part of this book was quite difficult to follow through; likeas when you are in a serious meditation retreat and you secretly fall asleep Best as: a reminder that “I am responsible for the way I am now” and thus the good and the bad is a byproduct of the way I was and thus to improve such good and to fix such bad requires a direct action of the way I will be Best for: ext

BATB score: 3/10 🙄 Marshall Goldsmith latest 2022 book is a literary disaster. Best to: Marshall Goldsmith’s 2007 “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” was a hand down 10/10 life-changing perfectly-written masterpiece; 15 years later he disappoints perfectly with “The Earned Life” Best as: Marshall Goldsmith was trying to share his wisdom as a life coach but it was all over the place Best for: this book is as so bad that it was torturous to complete BATB lingering thought: