BATB score: 6/10 💕 Best for: first and foremost, you need to know who Hayley Morris is, please go search for her instagram handle @hayleymorris3 and watch all of her instagram reels (or her tiktok channel, if you are a tiktok person) BATB lingering thought: did you like her V Hotel Reels? so creative, I love them! I am happy I get to support a social media influencer I love by buying, importing, and reading her book; even though the shipping fee was shitload and it does not

BATB score: 6/10 ⚗️⚛️🧪 *reader discretion advised* maybe BATB really doesn’t like novels Best for: you must like novels esp long and slow novels; I believe there were 20+ micro-incidences Best to: well, the book talks about the struggle of being a smart and aspirational female scientist vs societal expectations and gender discrimination back in the 1950s (which most of it is still true today) BATB linger thought: throughout reading this book, I just wanted the book to end. I

BATB score: 6.5/10 🙄 *reader discretion advised* BATB is starting to get really bored, annoyed, and tired with productivity books. In the spirit of mental health, can you please shut up? BATB lingering thought: well, if you read all of Adam Grant’s books then you got to read his new book right? ahe. Best to: this book has forty key takeaways; FORTY! I know he knows that FORTY is a little bit too much Best as: reference book for a lot of instagram-mable graphs and smarty Adam

BATB score: 6/10 🧡 *reader discretion advised* max advanced level reading skill required; this book about trauma can actual cause trauma in readers Best to: an in-depth analysis on how our toxic society makes us claim “this feels good. I want more” instead of the more valuable meaning of life “this feels good. I am contented. I am complete.” Best as: “The perceived need to be what the world demands becomes entangled with our sense of who we are and how we seek love.” - 500 p

BATB score: 6/10 🫠 *reader discretion advised* clickbait book title 💯 Seth Godin has ADHD, this book is an ADHD book - three paragraphs, tip of the iceberg touch of a story, and then off to the next story, repeat that roughly 150 times Best as: just because you wrote a book telling numerous stories does not make you yourself a good storyteller Best to: allow me to summary the whole book, “Marketing is storytelling, make the story remarkable, consistent, and authentic. Tell

BATB score: 6/10 🌸 Best as: romantic comedy pastime read; everything that is of some meaningful essence, BATB has typed them out under ‘Best Quotes’ below 🫠 Best to: could it be that we are making ‘life’ overly complicated than what ‘life’ intends to be? BATB lingering thought: not a forty-something f##k up but a thirty-something f##k up; it just gets younger and younger Best for: anyone who needs to write daily ‘three things you are grateful for’ just to keep them content

BATB score: 6/10 🫥 love the fun fact scientific research references; hate the personal vlogs Best to: one year happiness project with monthly OKRs to appreciate the mundane and be a kinder person Best for: happy people are scientifically proven to be more physically attractive 😎 Best as: a very slow book for endless mellow rainy days Best quotes: “To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” “We hugged for at

BATB score: 6.6/10 🤖 *reader discretion advised* BATB is just a little bit bored of the GenAI/LLM hype 🫥 Best as: a great book about GenAI / LLM fundamentals, historical key milestones, reference cases, controversies, and future analysis 🧐 Best to: conclude the major takeaways of this book into bullet points, memorize them, own them; you are now equipped and qualified to go on a GenAI panel / discussion / keynote talk; you will looks legit - ahh what a charismatic knowledg

BATB score: 6/10 🥱 Best as: nothing more than what you already know compiled into a book with nice quotes here and there Best for: first time people manager Best to: I disagree, I believe that when you do get to be CEOs, be the CEO that is truest to who you are; no point following any framework or format; just be you, the board of directors, the company, your subordinates won’t be going to your funeral anyways Best quotes: “people don’t leave companies; they leave managers”

BATB score: 6/10 🫣 good stuff but needles in a haystack Best as: why your pupil dilates and why you look down when you flirt with someone you like; and how to catch a lie by only observing eye movement > doubles as a cool party trick, two truth and one lie winner forever Best for: how to catch your boyfriend cheating with just his eye movement > remembering image looks up, remembering sound looks sideways, remembering feelings looks down Best to: the most important business

BATB Score: 6/10 🫥 Freida McFadden, girl, this one.. wasn’t great - but but, I still believe in you and will continue to read your other older pieces! Best as: it is never easy to nail a trilogy and this volume iii wasn’t giving Best to: if you have never read any of Freida McFadden’s work and if you are going to only read one and one only, please read “Never Lie” 💯 Best for: well, if you have read volume i and ii, you might as well finish volume iii and have some closure i

BATB Score: 6/10 🍎 🔪 okay but not wow Best to: Freida McFadden’s latest 2024 work “The Teacher” book number 27; wow imagine making 27 unique masterpieces Best as: once you have your hands down best seller best book ever “Never Lie”, it is truly difficult to compete with your own legacy BATB lingering thoughts: people expects more from you all the time and it’s insane and exhausting to always one up oneself - better to please no one Best for: reading Freida McFadden for the

BATB score: 6/10 🖤 Best as: okie I think I’ve cracked Freida McFadden’s writing style! first 150 pages: character build up but basically nothing much meh meh bleh bleh second 50 pages: some mystery that makes you question every character eh who is who last third 50 pages: close to figuring out the truth (you think!) start questioning yourself whether this book was even worth the read final 30 pages: surprise! last 5 page: another surprise!!! epilogue 3 pages: and another sur

BATB score: 6/10 *reader discretion advised* BATB loves Lucinda Berry to the point that BATB bought a kindle to read Lucinda Berry unpublished books 🤪 Best as: not one of Lucinda Berry’s best works but not bad Best to: you really have to stick around through 90% of the book, running through each character and family tree, for the climax which is in the last 10% of the book Best for: reading for the sake of enjoyment Best quotes: “Becoming a mom birthed my biggest fear - losi

BATB score: 6/10 🥶 Best as: 400+ pages long novel about the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, about never truly knowing your mother’s story, and re-kindling what seems impossible BATB lingering thought: it’s just long~~~~ Best for: you know how your mother is your worst enemy; this novel shares two daughters’ journey to try to unlock mom 🥹 Best to: are you willing to put in the work to re-kindle with mom, knowing that a better relationship can exist? cue psycho

BATB score: 6/10 👩‍⚕️ 🩸 Freida McFadden, girlfriend, this book wasn’t it Best to: a re-edit of her book Suicide Med 2014 with 20% plot optimizations and cutdowns; Dead Med 2024 was still 450+ pages long and was sorta kinda almost but not a hit Best for: if you haven’t read anything Frieda McFadden, check out The Housemaid, The Boyfriend, or Never Lie first and foremost Best as: oiii so many characters and intertwined stories, readers must try to keep up BATB lingering thoug

BATB score: 6/10 ↗️ Best to: the difference between extrinsic motivated / Type X person vs an intrinsic motivated / Type I person; and how you should strive to be the latter “My hope is that at our 25th reunion our class will not be known for how much money we made or how much money we gave back to the school, but for how the world was a better place as a result of our leadership.” Best as: why rewarding your team’s hard work with monetary gains can be detrimental and toxic;

BATB score: 6/10 🐈‍⬛ Best as: a mortician answers every death related questions asked by innocent children Best to: hilarious but educational like will I shit my pants when I die Best for: well, don’t you want to know whether you will shit your pants when you die? BATB lingering thought: yes, you will shit your pants when you die and yes, morticians are cool with it; though they may put a pampers on / butt plug in you to make sure your funeral is decent

BATB score: 6/10 🫠 Best as: a very long suspense, thriller, murder, crime scene investigation novel; with all those pages and words yet character love wasn’t established #bummer Best to: great interesting and rewarding ending just took a long time to get there; like how there’s a direct route but you took the scenic route which wasn’t that scenic anyways Best for: retired avid readers with a lot of time on your hands and enjoys the reading journey not necessarily the end; ho

BATB score: 6/10 Best as: a complete memoir on how a drug addict is born, how it starts, escalates, cold turkey withdrawals, relapses; and how it effects everyone in your life 💯 BATB lingering thought: how pleasurably addictive is it that you don’t think about dying but merely to get high 🤔 Best to: he wrote this memoir in a psych ward upon his third suicide attempt Best for: aren’t we all addicts of some sort? - everything escalated from there Best quotes: “Drugs are my on