BATB score: 5/10 🫠 Best as: a birthday gift for your bff coworker who you like to gossip with, a farewell gift for a colleague joining a consulting firm, a coffee shop decoration, a poop book (a book you take to the toilet with you to complete number two’s 💩) Best to: a silly fun read, no brains needed, just for laughs, don’t expect anything, definitely not a self-improvement book Best for: the book title 💯, the paper quality, the colorful cartoons and high quality prints

BATB score: 10/10 🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ 🧘 Best to: a very approachable sharing of monk spirituality and life wisdom that will make you think Best as: an introduction to monkshood for the corporate rats written in a friendly mood and tone for the average joe Best for: you know how other spiritual book can be very wordy, redundant, and boring? This book is legit good not sleepy 💯 BATB lingering thought: what would have to be the key trigger for me to quit my corporate job, my high clim

BATB score: 8/10 💛 Best as: the most adorable gift you can give to anyone in their 30s; it’s about a typical thirties-year-old version of a mid-life crisis Best to: key takeaways - give less furck about work or quits 9 to 5, loves drinking still and will diet tomorrow, bff is pet cat/dog, learns to live happily alone while being jealous of everybody else 💯 Best for: could 30s be the new midlife? BATB lingering thought: fried chicken with beer is a global meaning of life ❤️

BATB score: 3/10 🙈 This book covers only one premise: pay attention to details / look objectively and carefully (that's about it) 👀 Best to: a thick-ass book with numerous examples repeating the same premise above; this whole book can be summarized into a one-pager or a 18-mins TedTalk BATB lingering thought: I hate the way this book is written. Reminds me of school where the teacher asks the class the extremely obvious annoying question "can anyone tell me what is in this

BATB score: 6.6/10 👰‍♀️ oh my god! sorry, can not use god’s name in vain, oh my goodness! what is this book!?! Book is saying: A. “[…] know […] of the Spirit in your life, [and] you will have enough love ‘in the bank’ to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment” B. “Your spouse and your marriage must be the number one priority in your life.” C. “Sex is god’s appointed way for two people to reciprocally say to one anoth

BATB score: 10/10 🥹 words of wisdom from a 102-years-old grandma about the meaning of life, joy, and love #sobeautiful p.s. she is still alive! now at 103-years-old living happily in Arizona; yes, I googled 👵 Best to: because being alive is not the same as truly living; truly six secrets to health and happiness at every age - crisp, clear, sincere, no further questions Best as: a grandma’s warm embrace and reminder that all is well with you and the world ❤️‍🩹 BATB lingerin

BATB score: 7/10 💚💙 BATB reading level: advanced - strong discipline and determination required to finish reading this book Best to: know that there are three types of people: takers, matchers, and givers; “being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon” yet, we are all three / tri-polar depending on the circumstances Best as: better to just take the quiz https://adamgrant.net/quizzes/give-and-take-quiz/ , acknowledge that you are a selfish p

BATB score: 6/10 💭 started out very interesting and then deteriorated with every succeeding chapters; better to read Oliver Burkeman’s more recent masterpiece BATB 9/10 ‘Four Thousand Weeks’ 2021 Best as: key premise - when you expect the worst, you are more calm when the worst actually happen; thus maybe it is better to live with negative thinking and stop forcing positive thinking (because who are you? teletubbies?!) Best for: you know how the book “The Secret” claimed tha

BATB score: 10/10 👏👏👏 *required reading for office employees* we need to redefine our relationship with work because it is overrated and unhealthy Best for: any one who has said they are ‘passionate’ about the industry, company, or role; do know that the feeling was never mutual 💔 Best as: if only we can compete on who has better work-life balance instead of who has better work success (over what sacrifice), life would be so much more enriching and interesting BATB linger

BATB score: 7/10 🩵 Best as: this book is borderline a scam as it is merely a collection of selected chapters from Dale Carnegie’s two other best sellers “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” Best to: however, it is a good refresher if you have read the other two best sellers a while back OR a good introduction to Dale Carnegie if you haven’t read anything Dale Carnegie Best for: an extremely instagramable and quotable book BATB

BATB score: 6.5/10 🙄 *reader discretion advised* BATB is starting to get really bored, annoyed, and tired with productivity books. In the spirit of mental health, can you please shut up? BATB lingering thought: well, if you read all of Adam Grant’s books then you got to read his new book right? ahe. Best to: this book has forty key takeaways; FORTY! I know he knows that FORTY is a little bit too much Best as: reference book for a lot of instagram-mable graphs and smarty Adam

BATB score: 4/10 🤬 content wise the author gave zero f*cks Best for: the book aesthetics - the title, the cover design, the hardcover feels, the illustrations, the color print, the page texture, the publishing house smell; basically everything except the content itself Best as: not a bad gift for someone who obviously will not read the book beyond it’s title and maybe pretend to flip through the pages twice BATB lingering thought: this book is borderline annoying; the jokes

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙 *reader discretion advised* this book on anxiety and panic attacks can trigger anxiety and panic attacks 🫨 Best to: as a national correspondent queued to be on LIVE television in five, four, [mouth reads] three, two, one; are your hands sweaty? is your heart rate rising? is your mouth quivering? why is the perfection stigma so psychologically decapitating? Best for: anyone who can relate to this quote > “Why was it that I seemed to be more afraid of the

BATB score: 5/10 ❤️‍🩹 this book on self-talk can be summarized in a 5-minutes elevator pitch Best to: your number one cheerleader is yourself #selftalk BATB lingering thought: a very similar concept to “The Secret” Rhonda Byrne about manifestation and self-hypnosis Best for: say this every morning “I really am very special. I like who I am and I feel good about myself. I smile a lot. I am happy on the inside and I’m happy on the outside. I am positive. I am confident. I radi

BATB score: 9/10 🙏 *reader discretion advised* advanced reading skills required; quite scientific and nerdy Best to: macronutrients of happiness > enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose; optimize what is important > family, friendship, work, and faith; when in doubt, you are just one of 8 billion human beings so be grateful, be in the present, and know that you will die soon Best for: whenever you’re unhappy, go walk bare foot in nature and find the experience of ‘awe’ - “the

BATB score: 6/10 🫥 love the fun fact scientific research references; hate the personal vlogs Best to: one year happiness project with monthly OKRs to appreciate the mundane and be a kinder person Best for: happy people are scientifically proven to be more physically attractive 😎 Best as: a very slow book for endless mellow rainy days Best quotes: “To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” “We hugged for at

BATB score: 3/10 🫥 *reader discretion advised* Yung Pueblo’s way of writing is like a bunch of standalone bullet points formatted in paragraphs - statements after statements thrown at you - urgh Best to: it’s like you wrote this book for yourself Best as: the premise of the whole book could have been an e-mail Best for: this book titled “lighter” actually made me feel “heavier” BATB trying to be nice: okay, I do like the short poems (but those could have been an e-card) Best

BATB score: 3/10 🏞️ Best as: 30 individual chapters making 30 unique lessons on life, betting on a 50-50 coin toss chance on whether it would make sense (be a hit) for you Best for: BATB only likes 3 chapters > Loving the One You’re With, A Model Relationship, and How to Love Yourself; the rest meh; 3/30 = 10% hit rate for BATB Best to: okie here’s the plan, go to the bookstore, find the book, shuffle to the good chapters above, read it then and there, takes less than 10 min

BATB score: 8/10 ❤️ *TED Talk is hands down the epitome of world class public speaking - this book is all you need to know* Best to: why speak when this could have been an email you ask? because, “It’s the human overlay that turns information into inspiration.” Best as: an exhaustive lists of all the nooks and crannies to public speaking including how to start, how to finish, to memorize or not to memorize, what to wear, and how to save your presentation file in zip format *y

BATB Score: 9.5/10 🎨🖌️ Best for: we all need this book - fresh grads, midlife crisis, early retirement, Forbes 40 under 40 - we all need to take a day and just complete the workbook (at least once and forever more over and over again) BATB lingering thought: -0.5 points because there were moments in the book that I was like, 🙄 I understand already please stop repeating yourself Best to: why wasn’t this taught in school?! this is critical! emergency! paging Dr. Beat emergen