BATB score: 6.3/10 🕶🍻💢 Entertaining historical fiction regarding spies, escapes, murder, and politics during Hitler's regime Best to: great plot, suspenseful flow, and a good number of characters to love and to fear; yet, Rory Clements is your slightly above average authors - not wow. Best for: readers of fiction, he said, she said, gasps, pants, strikes Best as: a substitute leisure activity for screen time coach potatoes 🥔

BATB score: 6.3/10 💛 Best to: first 50-pages game strong intel, the rest 170 pages were alright Best for: when your creative director recommends a book into a world of colourful creative minds, you do what it takes to see things from the same wonderland viewpoint Best as: Dave Trott writing style - short story snippets 2-3 pages long and moving on to the next chop chop story; legit easy read Best quotes: “you can have what you want, or you can have your reasons for not havin

BATB score: 6.78/10 🌎 the world is my oyster 🌍 Best to: hands down the best introduction to geo-politics and the major subcontinental dynamics books for dummies trying to understand the world Best for: wanderer of the great planet or candidates for the United Nations Organization (UN) - you better read this book before the interviews; or blind date conversation starters 'so what's your thought on the disputed borders in the Middle East?' Best as: high school geo-politics co

BATB score: 6/10 🖤 written back in 1960 by Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize winner for American literature in 1961, made into a 8.3/10 IMDb film in 1962, and a required read for middle school and high school kids all until 2000s Best to: old school classic book on racism and prejudice in Alabama, USA back in 1930s; narrate through a six-year-old Scout Finch POV Best for: raise your hand if you had to read this book for school 🙋‍♀️🙋 raise your hand if you remember hating it 🙋‍♀️

BATB score: 6/10 💩 okay but not wow Best to: if you haven't read Matt Haig's "Reasons to Stay Alive" and "The Midnight Library", please do that first and foremost; it's kind of obvious that this book wasn't made with as much thought process and care Best for: wouldn't you think my Matt Haig's collection complete? this book could also be a modern day bible on the teachings of how to be happier with what you got Best as: a poop 💩 book, a comfort book you take to the loo, read

BATB score: 6/10 🙏 an intensive spiritual book on the art of being in the now - preach Eckhart Tolle preach! amen good night 🌝 Best to: realize deeply that the present moment is all you have; but how? okay. close your eyes and say to yourself "I wonder what my next thought is going to be" .... and in that wait you are free of thought and in the now ta da! Best for: your ego is stuck in the past of who you were and in the future of you might be - key is, you will be happier

BATB score 6.6/10 😴 Started out exceptionally strong on the basics to business and blitzscaling; unfortunately, things went downhill from Part III onwards… Best to: Reid Hoffman is a legit business guru who writes well in conveying business concepts; from his latest 2021 work “Masters of Scale”, this oldie 2018 book proves that Hoffman does write better every year or so Best for: business students as university course required read - a perfect mixture of principles, business

BATB score: 6.6/10 🤖 Bill Gates' recommended read for Christmas 2021. Best to: Sir Kazuo Ishiguro aka Nobel Prize winner for Literature aka mastermind behind "The Remains of the Day" and "Never Let Me Go" exceptionally work hands down; unfortunately, "Klara and the Sun" was okay but not wow and is definitely not one of his trophy novel Best for: if Bill Gates recommends you to read something, you try your best to meet his expectations and take his advice seriously; no questi

BATB score: 6.7/10 ☂️ a very niche book on design flaws, design frameworks, and practical designs catering to humans' common sense use Best to: blame the machine and the design! they are at fault when humans had to take some time to read the manuals to comprehend 'how to turn on/off device' when it should have been intuitive #duh Best for: product designers in the making of user-centric devices Best as: the examples about the 4 table stove knobs, the push/pull door, the QWERT

BATB score: 6.7/10 🤧 a legit good book about dealing with life's struggles through psychologists-style talking-it-through: drinking problem, break-ups, unhappiness, sickness and death; yet the book's narration was long and slow Best to: reading this book equates to 10 in-depth sessions with a therapist - congratulations, do did done; it's about the therapist, her patients, her therapist, and his patients with legit therapist comments and recommendations throughout Best for:

BATB score: 6.6/10 🦞 Best to: the first 120-pages will bore you, the second 120-pages will arouse you, the third 120-pages will make you curious and even consider it a good book, and the last few pages will stun you and justify the book as a great novel; yet, I can not forgive you for the first 120-pages Best for: experienced and patient novel readers who would be willing to read through the first 120-pages of boredom and is steadfast focused to finish novels 🤓 Best as: oh

BATB score: 6.7/10 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 💯 % important but not written for the general public; maybe if we write a more casual version and call it "Why You Should Not Date Your Boss", it may be more well-received la Best to: "Sleeping with my boss was a big mistake. I own it. Well, half of it. Problem was, I paid for all of it." and so SHE had to quit to save the HE in power; urgh so unfair! Best for: "What hurts the victim the most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence

BATB score: 6/10 ⏳ one of Matt Haig's standalone novel - a fictitious tale of an immoral with eternal youth and the search for meaning of life when one truly does have centuries to live Best to: well-written, captivating, entertaining, easy-read; unfortunately BATB is not a fan 💔 the narration is slow and the ending is meh Best for: Matt Haig's fans but do check out "Reasons to Stay Alive" first and foremost Best as: actually Netflix should have a go in making a movie adapta

BATB score: 6/10 🤎 "How to Change" Katy Milkman is besties with "Grit" Angela Duckworth - and that's why their books speak of one another quite often; my bestie and your bestie sit down by di fire 🎼 Best for: if you have not read "When" Daniel H. Pink, "Grit" Angela Duckworth, "Atomic Habits" James Clear, and "The Power of Habit" Charles Duhigg, then this book takes the best bits from each of these 'other books' and make one book compilation #TADA BATB critique: I was not a

BATB score: 6/10 💛 "Assault is Not an Accident" - just because she blacked-out does not mean you-stranger have a right to penetrate her #duh unbelievable Stanford elite graduates could be so stupid Best to: a very long read about the 18-months journey from day of blackout assault, to court filing and trials, recovery/therapy/insomnia and final statements of Chanel Miller - making a case for all assaulted victims 👏 Best for: it's an important book but it's just very long and

BATB score: 6/10 🕊 the first book to a seven-volume series autobiography of Maya Angelou - it's just very long and detailed Best to: written back in 1969 - definitely a classic; must have been a required read in literature class back in high school Best for: long-form autobiography bookworms - life goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on Best as: maybe just read chapters 11 and 12 which were critical to who Maya Angelou is, then you will understand how she writes so well and

BATB score: 6/10 😽 BATB read level: 1 easy peesy Best to: a Japanese whimsical modern fable - literally "modern" as it has just been published in Dec 2021; it's about how the act of and the business for reading books has changed Best for: if you like a talking cat 😸 , books 📚, and Japanese fables 🇯🇵, this book is made for you Best as: great as a children's book (a lot of action and fantasies) and great as an adult overthinking fable (so what's the underlying meaning of e

BATB score: 6/10 🫥 huge performance gaps from his work of art “Flowers for Algernon” [1959]; “The Fifth Sally” [1981] is a victim of Daniel Keyes own award winning success - I had too high expectations, I am sorry Best to: check out “Flowers for Algernon” seriously, it got so many awards! Best for: fictional telltale from a POV of someone who is struggling with multiple personality disorder; great synopsis but narration was extremely meh - this and that then that and this Be

BATB score: 6/10 😴 written since 1937, covering fears and desires that is still relevant today; proof that we have always questioned what is the meaning of life (and have yet to define them) Best to: legitimate material in the book about having desire, faith, imagination, persistence, about controlling your subconscious mind, sexual desire, sixth sense, and about having a mastermind group of best friends forever #bff ; yet, the book is just boringly written, extremely redund

BATB score: 6/10 🐷🪰🪰 British novelist William Golding 'Lord of the Flies' was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983; and that's why it is a high school literature class required read. Best to: love the book's underlying themes about leadership, conformity, corruption, war, and power; but I don't love how the book is written with elaboration on rock, dirt, trees, pool, conch 🐚, coconut 🥥 Best for: if you read it in high school (but was too distracted to appreciat