BATB score: 4/10 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️ You either love Sally Rooney or you don’t. I don’t. I admire you that you wrote so many novel pieces at on 31 y/o. Yet, I just wasted my day reading this one of yours. Best to: the characters had explicitly detailed intercourse for roughly 8 times throughout the book; Sally Rooney is modern day Murakami - equally perverted in writing but respectfully more of female-POV “make love” Best for: 30+ years old love, lust, and friendship; a very

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: 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: 4/10 🫤 Ellen DeGeneres’ jokes are so predictable (since this book published in 2011).� Best as: let me break down Ellen’s joke structure - superficial topic about day-to-day stuff, tangent talk to other random thoughts that comes to mind, and ending by making no sense at all and making a fool out of herself; e.g. I love the Spice Girls. I love spices too. But not all spices. Some spice makes me sick. What was I talking about? The end. Best to: unfortunately it’s

BATB score: 4/10 👾 not a page turner Best for: honestly, good effort to write a novel about a parallel universe of game lovers, game players, and game makers Best to: the problem I have is the fact that there is so climax / highlight to this novel - like seriously, what was significant? It just went on and on, game after game after game. Or maybe ‘life’ is that way? Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow? With nothing significant, just day after day? Best as: if you are a critic

BATB score: 4/10 🍎 when life is truly not on your side - the minute you are born, you have drawn the short straw and life is forever against you at the end of the day, it’s a really good story; you understand why innocent baby grew up gangsta, killing people, and ended up in jail and you feel the love the mother truly has for her children even when she have nothing to offer Best for: daredevils - the book is so longgggg (525 pages with font size 10 est. minimum reading 20+ h

BATB score: 4/10 🌸 Best for: wah Drew Barrymore really wrote this memoir for herself and nobody else as the stories only matters to her and nobody else Best to: what it means to be famous for being famous is you can write up a book; promote it with your name and disregard the content Best as: Drew Barrymore’s milking that passive income Best quote: “I wanted to be a good girl, and I wanted goodness to be the theme of my life and my work.”

BATB score: 4/10 🥂 Best to: whenever you are in doubt on whether you are an alcoholic Best for: ahh, I am an alcoholic Best as: or am I just an alcohol enthusiast? Best quotes: “to be a better version of myself and at worst to get some quiet in my brain” “I need friends who understand my limitations and have lowered their expectations.”

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: 4/10 🙄 Best as: proof that every well-known-enough person should write an autobiography as one’s passive income and legacy Best for: when who you marry out-shadowed you Best to: “separated but not divorced; we ride together, we die together, bad marriage for life” so what’s an entanglement? Best quotes: “Fame might get you company, but it ain’t always good company. And it’s certainly not real love or real respect.” “If you have a blowup with someone you really ch

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 a complete waste of time after page 42 onwards Best to: needle in a haystack must search far and wide for the good bits in a bunch of wikipedia word vomit Best as: there’s only two good bits (1) Pick the right industry under the best macro trends for booster shine: “Look for the beach with the biggest waves. Market dynamics trump individual performance, so give yourself the best chance by going where the opportunities are the greatest.” (2) Dump your poor

BATB Score: 4/10 🫥 “The Tipping Point” 2000 vs “Revenge of the Tipping Point” 2024 24 years, wah, what a disappointment 🫠 Best for: BATB really wanted to love revenge book, was really excited and hopeful, but this book wasn’t giving 😢 Best to: key takeaway > the tipping point is when 1/3 of the target market audience is on board, you will feel hopeless, hopeless, nothing, nothing and then boom BATB lingering thought: make sure you stick around until 33% TAM adoption to wit

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 it seems like celebrities are writing their memoirs to tell their story, remain relevant, self-reflect, publicly confess, and make some passive income; quick wins 💯 Best to: you need an intermediate level knowledge on who Demi Moore is to be able to enjoy and relate to her memoirs Best for: did you know that Demi Moore dated Ashton Kusher? if you don’t know nor don’t really care, then skip this book Best as: broken family, rape, sex scenes, divorce, movie

BATB score: 4.5/10 ⭕️ and that’s why monks have no friends (and lives in a forest) 🌳🙏 Best to: the way the book is written is conversational, he said, he said, then he said, so it’s like you’re eavesdropping to a 1-1 discussion without the audience in mind; it’s all over the place, where’s the meat, what’s the point, where am I? BATB lingering thought: I hate a panel discussion whether that’s 1-1 or worst yet 1-3, listening in to a conversation is not how humans best intake

BATB score: varies based on your nationality BATB score: 4/10 if you are Thai, born and raised, you don’t have to read this book we know this by heart BATB score: 8/10 if you are an expat in a leadership role in Thailand, also wtf are you doing in my country taking c-level roles that are better off lead by true-thais?! just because we are developing doesn’t mean that you-developed can march in and claim supremacy; why? just because you have a soothing English accent, oh god,

BATB score: 4/10 🥶 Best as: meh. this book was below average for Freida McFadden Best to: read something else, don't worry I forgive you Best for: McFans; to support and read everything Freida McFadden the moment it is release ie. January 2025!

BATB score: 4/10 🫥 Best for: the book explicitly said, written for Millennials, the world’s next leaders #aww Best as: started out very well as an Introduction to Business refresher, then tragically deteriorates in content quality and crushed all of the Millennials’ souls along with it Best to: a true example of generation gap in an organization in the format of a book; Gen X teaching Gen Y how to be leaders, cue Gen Y eye rolls BATB lingering thought: there are bits and pie

BATB score: 4/10 ☄️ point of clarification: I’ve never read The Little Prince and I would like to understand why there’s a The Little Prince exhibition in 2025; meh, I didn’t like it one bit 🙄 Best as: a simple, short, but yet very confusing story with numerous characters; the essence of the book requires a lot of deciphering BATB lingering thought: people sharing their lessons learnt from The Little Prince, loneliness, love, friendship, and the loss of innocence, did you ju

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