BATB score: 4/10 🔥 A novel written in 2017 and blasted to fame by Hulu TV mini series in 2020 starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington (who won shitload of award from this blaze). IMDB score 7.7/10 🔥 #dayum Best to: the mini-series did add a lot of it's own dramatic sparks and plot twistie flames to Celeste Ng's core ignition; to be honest, I bet the mini-series made the novel more juicy Best for: simple writing novel evangelist; you know how there are many novel aut

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: 4/10 🌧 cloudy with a chance of murky brain Best to: this is not a book, this is an encyclopedia; 200+ MBA concepts dump into one thick-ass book in 200+ short introductory snippets - too brief for in-depth understanding and too shallow for any practical adaptation Best for: personally, pursuing an MBA and/or climbing the corporate ladder has nothing to do with how many MBA concepts you get to learn and remember Best as: a smart-ass encyclopedia that makes your she

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: 4.5/10 😒 Adam Kay, I love you but this book was definitely trying too hard to be funny; the overloading cheap jokes on every page, here and there and everywhere, made this book painful to read Best to: be grateful for our healthcare and medical advancement from our historical medieval (sparkle times) doctor's recommendation to consume a hot cup of pee 🟡 and a pinch of poo 💩 when you feel unwell #healingproperties Best for: collectors of Adam Kay's books 📚 Best

BATB score: 4/10 😴 This book is a 101 manual on "how to conduct a silicon-valley-style product initiation sprints" aka fancy offsite activity for the elite c-levels and directors Best to: uninterrupted 5 intensive days of problem cracking, idea sketches, product prototype, and focus group feedback = wala the new miracle cure! it only works if the group comprise of over-qualified leaders who really wanted to make a difference +110% invested in the company #notme Best for: out

BATB score: 4/10 🤷‍♀️ after surviving the horrendous concentration camp, Viktor Frankl had to relearn how to be happy; proceeding back to his normal life as a psychiatrist / philosopher lecturer but this time covering deeper topics on the Meaning of Life (from a Holocaust survivor POV); this book is his famous 3 lectures Best to: intensive Viktor Frankl's 2.5 hours monologue; a philosophy university class at its best, you know how the professor is for sure saying something s

BATB score: 4/10 👑 *reader discretion is advised* BATB is not a big fan of fiction 💔 dear gods and goddesses please don't hate me 🧜‍♀️🔱 "a tale of gods and goddesses, kings and queens, immortal fame and the human heart" - ouu fancy! Best to: extreme fast pace novel - this happened, that happened, then this happened, then that happened, and boom! (which I like) yet it's like 10 Netflix episodes long of little plots (which I don't like) Best for: it's about love, gods, and

BATB score: 4/10 👧👩👩‍🦱👱‍♀️ 'Little Women' written in 1868 by Louisa May Alcott - when her family was struggling with extreme poverty - is a children's classics (where no Gen Z today would have the patience to endure this thick slow novel) Best to: if you are up for the 800 pages challenge, I tell you it wasn't easy at all; just imagine that Louisa May Alcott wrote the whole book with paper and ink!? like how? Best for: art appreciation at it's best, for god sake, the boo

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