BATB score: 10/10 💯🥺👏 my heart hurts. a sad, emotional, and heartfelt memoir for Chika - a bubbly 7-year-old battling brain tumour DIPG, the hopeful journeys of legal guardians, and the feelings left behind. Best to: Mitch Albom is an amazing author in conveying emotions and affections in very simple writing; easily digestible by readers and, for sure, strike a chord in readers' hearts 💯💞 Best for: if you are going to read only one book this year, read this book. If you

BATB score: 4/10 🌝 Best to: meh, not Mitch Albom's best piece; you get a sense that he is trying maybe a little too hard to top as a sequel to the hit "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" Best for: if you started to read Mitch Albom's books, you might as well read all of Mitch Albom's books to make it a complete collection Best as: Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? No big deal. There's still moreeee (a total of 12 titles from Mitch Albom) blah blah blah Best quote

BATB score: 6/10 🙏 an intensive spiritual book on the art of being in the now - preach Eckhart Tolle preach! amen good night 🌝 Best to: realize deeply that the present moment is all you have; but how? okay. close your eyes and say to yourself "I wonder what my next thought is going to be" .... and in that wait you are free of thought and in the now ta da! Best for: your ego is stuck in the past of who you were and in the future of you might be - key is, you will be happier

BATB score: 4/10 🦠 hardcore science fiction with over 300+ theoretical physics concepts, orbital mechanics explanations, and metaverse experiences 👽 Best to: nanoscience, AR/VR, string theory, astrophysics, religion, and extraterrestrial invasion; incredibly in-depth science, Cixin Liu legit knows science stuff Best for: definitely not a casual read, heavyweight sci-fi not for the light-hearted novice; *advanced level*; you must have a strong passion for sci-fi or have read

BATB score: 8.8/10 💜 BATB Fact: Mitch Albom's non-fiction biographies 👏 are way better than his overrated and redundant fictional tales Best to: Mitch Albom ⭐ Top 5 ⭐ definitely but do check out "Finding Chika" first and foremost Best for: all of us; who hates our mom at one point in our teenage and midlife years; okay 'hate' is a strong word, allow me to rephrase, annoyed of, dislike, conflicted with, offensive of, angered about mom, mommy, mother. Best as: a memoir to all

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙 a brilliant biography about the making of someone and the meaning of life Best to: the fact that James R. Doty, MD is a bad academic student with an unaccommodating family upbringing, an exceptionally neurosurgeon, a 75M USD business investor, a CCARE philanthropist, and an author of his own enlightenment makes him relatable 360 Best for: anyone who is asking 'what's the meaning of life'? 🙋‍♀️🙋 Best as: this book is "The Secret" Rhonda Byrne mixed with

BATB score 6.6/10 😴 Started out exceptionally strong on the basics to business and blitzscaling; unfortunately, things went downhill from Part III onwards… Best to: Reid Hoffman is a legit business guru who writes well in conveying business concepts; from his latest 2021 work “Masters of Scale”, this oldie 2018 book proves that Hoffman does write better every year or so Best for: business students as university course required read - a perfect mixture of principles, business

BATB score: 7.2/10 ⭐️ a French blind girl trying to survive the Reich WWII and a German boy detecting her prohibited radio broadcast and (less important) a magical valuable blue gem 💎 called the Sea of Flames Best to: 500+ pages extremely verbose, detailed, and descriptive about numerous events in non-chronological order; readers are dumped with 100+ pieces of the story puzzle, you have to figure which pieces were important and which were just extras (like made in china dupl

BATB score: 5/10 💁‍♀️🤷 you either like it or you don't. written in 2018 and immediately made into a Hulu original series 8.5/10 iMDb in 2020 #movefast Best to: why highschool 'friends with benefits' can continue to be good friends yet complicated benefits would linger, why if you don't date your highschool 'friends with benefits' back then, then don't expect to be able to date them now Best for: 'friends with benefits'; "I love you. It's not like this with other people." un

BATB score: 8/10 👩‍🦰 well-written 👏 legit / strong analysis of sexism from child's play to C-level dynamics to everyday balancing career vs family; the numerous women-centric expectations, burden, and challenges just to be considered as equal to men Best to: women leadership, breaking the glass ceiling via leading by example; Sheryl Sandberg's legacy aka linkedin profile in a format of a book Best for: mothers juggling a successful career and quality time with family; I co

BATB score: 6.7/10 ☂️ a very niche book on design flaws, design frameworks, and practical designs catering to humans' common sense use Best to: blame the machine and the design! they are at fault when humans had to take some time to read the manuals to comprehend 'how to turn on/off device' when it should have been intuitive #duh Best for: product designers in the making of user-centric devices Best as: the examples about the 4 table stove knobs, the push/pull door, the QWERT

BATB score: 7/10 💃 a journey of a whore from nobody, to mistress, to a rich ass Mademoiselle; navigating life's gems through husbands #idol #inspiration Best to: a difficult to read novel due to the many husbands/partners/lords/prince and the numerous details of her love life instances; I believe over 100+ plot twists happened in this one novel; +add-on to the novel difficulty with old style writings of oh lord, de, thy, nay. Best for: a very good plan B to wealth; in case o

BATB score: 5/10 💤 Best to: you know that one annoying old uncle that all of us have? this book is like that old uncle trying to share some life lessons with you, he started out strong with good intentions definitely, yet he went on and on repeating himself so at the end it was wishy washy and you just want him to stop Best for: wisdom and road-to-happiness 101 Best as: don't bother - allow me to summarise this book for you in four points below *The Four Agreements* 1. Be Im

BATB score: 9.5/10 💃 a novel about a fiction Hollywood super star and her glamorous and scandalous life; super entertaining to read, easily read in 1-2 sittings 😍 Best to: you will fall in love with Evelyn Hugo's character and you will understand the rationale behind using lust to twist publicity and faking love to gain fame ⭐ I am with her 100% - she is one smart b*tch Best for: nomadic minds in need of a casual weekend read; you know how BATB hates fiction especially ewy-

BATB score: 7.7/10 🇺🇸 this book makes you proud to be Asian #asianpride Best to: a book that more than half of the world's population can relate 🌏 61% of the world to be exact - I am just that kind of Asian 🤓; our tough love upbringings, the American culture shock, our parents' expectations of a thousand successes, the "Pursuing your dreams is for losers. Doing what you love is how you become homeless." Best for: 'have yet to make your parents proud' Asians, Asian immigra

BATB score: 6.7/10 🤧 a legit good book about dealing with life's struggles through psychologists-style talking-it-through: drinking problem, break-ups, unhappiness, sickness and death; yet the book's narration was long and slow Best to: reading this book equates to 10 in-depth sessions with a therapist - congratulations, do did done; it's about the therapist, her patients, her therapist, and his patients with legit therapist comments and recommendations throughout Best for:

BATB score: 3/10 😡 *and this score is me being nice; unpopular book review alert* redundancy at it's best, he said, she said, same shit Best to: this book is like a consultant; thoroughly researched (did their homework), professionally written/presented (tactful), saying all the right things, but OMG they're just quotes, nice concepts, impractical, fake, and fluffy OK?! Best for: plenty of instagramable quotes - urgh, it's so fake, I can not. Honestly, I believe I tackle my

BATB score: 7/10 🍷 Amy Schumer is an introvert. Best to: casual, entertaining, relatable read about life - broken parents, siblings, drinking, boyfriends, and blackouts; likeas how we all are trying to understand what happened to us, who are we really, and where are we going exactly? Best for: you have to know who Amy Schumer is, have watched her stand-up on Netflix, or have watched her movie “Trainwreck” to be able to find this autobiography of hers interesting Best as: lig