BATB score: 10/10 💋⭐️💃 A stunning novel by Frances Cha on modern day Korea - the idealistic desire for plastic beauty, the strides and sacrifices women has to endure, and the definition of love and affairs. Best to: an accurate reflection of modern day societal expectations for a woman - find a rich husband, make money, manage high social circles, save up for aesthetic plastic surgery, deal with in-laws, make a son, and calibrate about maternity leave and career consequence

BATB score: 10/10 🖤 nobody writes about our inevitable mortality like Dr. Atul Gawande #bravo 👏 Best to: our impulse is to fight death - chemo, surgery, sutures, bring it; there is always something more that the doctors can do. but the fact that we are trying so hard to fix things may be shortening or worsening the time we hardly have left. so is it quantity or quality? Best for: all of us. eye-opening; ask your loved ones today "if time becomes short, what is most importan

BATB score: 9/10 🧑‍⚕️ Alex Michaelides is exceptionally talented in character creation and flow of uncovering storyline details. The book's plot twists, climax, and the closure falling act made clear that he is a full-time screenwriter. #Bravo Best to: not bad at all for a psychological thriller novel #dayum Best for: you know how you watch a movie and you go "I bet he's the killer"? well, through the pages, I had no clue. Best as: Netflix movie material

BATB score: 7.8/10 🧠 *Reader discretion advised* this a theoretical, thoroughly-researched, serious academic book. This book is smarter than all of us combined. I feel the blood, sweat, and tears; the discipline, determination, and passion of Jonathan Haidt in writing this comprehensive piece. #bravo Best to: 90% chimp 10% bee; fundamentally, we are competitive selfish hypocrites 🙈; yet, we morally can collate for the good of the group 🐝 Best for: debaters, political leade