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

BATB score: 5/10 ❤️‍🩹 second time reading this book and still 50-50 love/hate this book; Shad Helmstetter - truly reaping the goodie passive income of this book since 1986 (before I was born) and then upselling with his self-talk plus app with a monthly subscription of $19.99, payment via his own website to bypass Apple Store and Google Play store 30% transactions fee; you ahh, business man much Best to: there’s many ways to self-hype: silent self-talk (voices in your brain)

BATB score: 5/10 😴 I am too young to be part of Oprah’s Book Club; took me a year to finish this slow burn book 🫠 Best as: was curious to know what kind of book makes it into Oprah’s Book Club 2023 Best to: ahh… long novels, slow narrations, a lot of character build up, sisterhood, family dynamics, inter-generations relationships, death of family members Best for: 50+ years old, early retired, slow and mellow lifestyle, read on the backyard patio, hard cover, hot tea, autum

BATB score: 5/10 🤷‍♀️ Best for: you have to be in the start-up venture capitalist business to appreciate the tissue-paper billion dollar deal, the all-or-nothing gamble based on gut feelings,and the crazy mad man founders and even crazier investors Best to: too detailed for the average joe on a don’t really need to know basis Best as: so this is what it takes; missing your own wedding twice, a narcissistic belief in yourself as ultra indestructible, never wanting to step dow

BATB score: 5/10 💋 written by Jessica Simpsons for Jessica Simpsons Best as: a nostalgic ride back to the good years - 2000s; MTV billboard, skinny low waisted jeans, paparazzi, reality TV, unrelated music videos, lip sync but touching lyrics,success measured based on how many CDs you’ve sold Best to: Mickey Mouse Club The Disney Channel Season 6-7 1993-1995 has made big name celebrities: Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling; and no, Jessica Si

BATB score: 5/10 🤷‍♀️ Best to: meh Best as: meh Best for: meh BATB lingering thought: meh, I guess we should pause reading Frieda McFadden’s books for a while

BATB score: 5/10 🤨 reader discretion advised: a 21st century memoir to family YouTube channel sensation, influencer monetization, zero children’s privacy, staged content, and cancel culture Best to: a perfect family life on-camera exposed by your eldest daughter; kudos to sissy for writing this memoir to save-ish her younger siblings BATB lingering thought: written by a 21-year-old, a memoir that’s quite eloquent, great chapter structure, good use of advanced English vocabul

BATB score: 5/10 🧘‍♀️ reader discretion advised nothing on meditation Best as: 28 mini-chapters to be read over 28 days on how to live life a little bit lighter ; yet, mediocre daily mini-lessons 😴 Best as: free basic therapy Best for: anxious people Best quotes: “It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are.” “Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder, harnessed for productivity.” “There’s no authority with the power to demand that