BATB score: 5/10 🎯 This book is about taking a step back and understanding your true meaning of life, whether you have committed to such ambitions or have delayed such gratification. Claiming that friends and family are important to you yet will cancel on them for ad hoc work 💯%. Best to: the first half of the book was legit strong 💪 while the second half was a tad bit watery and wonky; yet definitely good stuff in its entirety, easily digestible and an easy read Best for:

BATB score: 5/10 💢 Not bad but boring. Best to: finding good points in this book was like finding needles in the haystack among the clustered anecdotes; they're there but where? the book can be summarised into a one-pager. Best for: street protestors. the book talks about how to avoid and resolve high conflicts; in a way, the opposite can be used to start one 🔥 Best as: "Real change requires putting sustained pressure on people and institutions that benefit from the current

BATB score: 5/10 🏄‍♀️🌏 too detailed and written in textbook style an autobiography on who is Yvon Chouinard, the origins of Patagonia Inc, and the philosophy behind the business environmental morales and day-to-day enjoyable and sustainable operations Best to: true passion driven business 💯 started with the love for the outdoors; translates into business values 'let my people go surfing' flextime policy, donating 10% of profit to non-profit environmental groups, and creati

BATB score: 5/10 💔 you either love it or you hate it kind of book Best to: it's about depression, suicide, coping with losses, moving on, unable to move on, and Murakami style porno writings via the main character's POV Best for: if you started to read Murakami, you might as well read every book from Murakami Best as: the main character has >10 sexual encounters or telltales throughout the 400 pages of this book; this book is 100% rated R Best quotes: “Don't feel sorry for y

BATB score: 5/10 🎸 unfortunately, not in Mitch Albom's top 3 best books. Best to: unlike Mitch Albom's previous signature works, this book is 2X longer at 490 pages about a fiction character called Frankie Presto; from the day he was born to the day he passed, it was quite a long journey through a series of events Best for: if you read 2-3 Mitch Albom's books, you might as well read every single book by Mitch Albom Best as: part of a Mitch Albom's collection 📕📙📘

BATB score: 5.5/10 💲💲💲 a very specialized book on managing a sales organization 🙋🙋‍♀️ if you are big boss enough to relate, then this book is made for you; profitable business or die Best to: a blueprint manual on how to make money for your business; conceptual, anecdotal, and directive do's and don'ts; freemium to premium -> hypergrowth takes 7 years Best for: c-suite, executive level, business key decision makers on how to build an aggressive sales team, a motivational

BATB score: 5/10 not all of Mitch Albom's book is a 10/10 Best to: so jelly to have Mitch Albom write one's eulogy in the form of a globally sold book; Rev Henry, your life story from a rough start to jail to redemption to singing in the hospital is truthful to one's complicated life Best for: you don't have to be religious to relate to this book Best as: if you are going to read Mitch Albom's books, you might as well read all of Mitch Albom's books

BATB score: 5.5/10 🤔 Best to: a mini book that you take to cafes as photo prop; the book itself is a creative showcase; beautiful layouts, fonts, juxtaposition of image and text - a visually beautiful book Best for: cafe hoppers, lifestyle influencers, coffee drinkers, people who work in the creative industry Best as: a 💩 poop book quick reads on the hustling tips and techniques in the life of an advertising creative Best quote: “Early to bed. Early to rise. Work like hell

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: 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: 5/10 🍂 BATB Reading Level: Advanceeee Ocean Vuong is a poet and his story-tell rhythm is likeas a poem; you either love that about him or you don’t Best to: this book tries to be too many things - a memoir, history channel, animal planet, national geographic, coming of age; and touching on too many topics - immigration, war refugees, PTSD, illiteracy, racism, poverty, family, homosexuality #omg Best as: a very difficult book to write, to read, and to follow throu

BATB score: 5/10 💔 You either love it or you don’t. Best to: it’s a slow burn book about a powerful Catholic family in Nigeria vs the rest of the family Best for: novel appreciation Best as: the book’s content can be summarized in <5 minutes but it can be overly analyzed for hours; it’s about religion, revolution, corruption, discipline, coming of age, Nigeria, the author’s voice; I didn’t like it Best quotes: “We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we

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: 5/10 🧐 *reader discretion advised* I personally love Daniel Keyes’ masterpiece “Flowers for Algernon” 1958 [BATB 10/10] and wanted to explore his other works “The Minds of Billy Milligan” 1981 Best to: Imagine 1977, a serious crime of kidnap and rape at Ohio State University has break loose where the suspect is a 22-year-old young male with 24 different personality; the world’s very first case of schizophrenia; then Billy Milligan, the suspect himself, wrote to D

BATB score: 5/10 💥 written in 500 BC, a blueprint / playbook to war, oh my my this book is literally a part of history! Best to: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is written in bullet points, short quotable phrases, short words of wisdom, and immediately moving onto the next short quotable phrase - kinda like reading a meme lol Best as: “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” OKAY NEXT! “Move swift as the Wind and closely

BATB score: 5/10 💡 *reader discretion advised* not a book for the average joe; requires IVY league educational background a complete post-mortem extremely detailed report of what happened at General Electric from Jack Welch’s most successful company stardom to Jeff Immelt’s company downfall bye bye die Best as: no one really needs to know that much detailed post-mortem unless you are doing a General Electric business case review Best to: unpopular opinion, I do feel sorry fo

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: 5/10 🙂‍↔️ Best to: okie Gregg Olsen, you do much better with nonfiction than fiction; could also be, that no fiction imagination can beat the suspense and thriller of real life Best as: it’s okay, let me buy your nonfiction books and give you another chance Best for: if you are going to read one book and one book only from Gregg Olsen, please read “If You Tell” 10/10 BATB score Best quote: “People born rich don’t try so hard. They know they don’t need to. They al

BATB score: 5/10 🛶👒 not bad not bad Best as: a long weekend read for the pure fun of reading - isn’t that what reading is supposed to be for? BATB lingering thought: these days, reading has become a bragged hobby, an academic show-off, an I read, you Netflix? thus every book you read has evolved to be part of your intellectual identity and so naturally you steer to the boring scholarly accepted books > now what’s the joy in that? Best for: if you are bored of Netflix, this

BATB score: 5/10 💔🧳 a Netflix series book adaptation featuring Gong Ji-cheol Yoo BATB lingering thought: I’ve always wondered what criteria were use to select books to make a series/movie adaptation from especially Netflix Original high standards; what the hell, it was a mediocre book with zero thriller nor romance nor revenge Best as: the book’s premise of rental wife / husband is interesting; could it be that Netflix picks just the fundamental concepts of a book and then