BATB score: 8/10 👨‍🏫 hey hey not bad professor! short, concise, to the point, research-driven, fun, with key chapter takeaways, and super actionable 💯 Best as: listening to one of Professor Michael L. Platt, Director of Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, lectures Best for: as if you are an MBA student at Wharton Business School Best to: easy morning class and off you go, on to the rest of your day BATB linger thought: there is a clear gap between a researcher/professor and r

BATB score: 8/10 ❤️‍🩹 Best as: affordable therapy in book form, DIY-self-therapist, pick a theme/chapter that suits your needs and read away 💯 Best to: explanation, examples, exercises; not all chapters would be applicable, but there’s a chapter for everyone BATB lingering thought: mine is chapters Family Drama, What Holds Us Back, Self-Esteem, Body Image, and The Ups and Downs of Stress 🫠 Best for: we all need therapy ❤️‍🩹 Best quotes: “Cringing happens when it feels too

BATB score: 8/10 👏 Best to: great words of wisdom from an old retired uncle vibe about the meanings of life (note that meanings is plural) Best as: sometimes old retired uncle contradict himself and repeat himself but we listen politely anyways Best for: anyone who is sprinting to chase success and at times wonders “wait why though”? Best quotes: “Reaching the summit of money but getting there feeling empty, lonely and unhappy, isn’t winning. It’s losing.” “We are all dreami

BATB score: 8/10 😎 *feel good vibes* Best as: a novella about soulmates finding each other after generations of rebirths Best to: a casual read, best read under the palm trees 🌴 on a beach 🏖️ with an aperol spritz 🍹 Best for: anyone on holiday on italian amalfi beaches Best quote: “It’s life that is impermanent, not love.”

BATB score: 8/10 🥹 Best as: wow what a memoir on eating to suppress feelings, eating as a defense mechanism, eating to hide to the point of morbid obesity BATB TL;DR: sexually abused at 12, turned to eating to numb feels to the point of obesity Best to: redundant with each chapter but forgivable Best for: any women out there who agrees that fat shaming and fat dysmorphia is real; even if you are not (that) fat you wish to be less fat Best quotes: “I reserve my most elaborate

BATB score: 8/10 😊 Best as: damn, sometimes we forget that Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education activist, is just a girl nothing special and she deserves to just be a girl nothing special Best to: a coming of age memoir of a Pakistani girl in Oxford University in love Best for: you have to know who Malala Yousafzai is and you should have read “I Am Malala” book first Best quotes: “As if the worst thing that ever happened to me was the most interesting part of my life.” “To

BATB score: 8/10 Best as: a short bedtime story but thriller Freida McFadden signature epilogue twist Best to: 60-minutes quick casual fun read to give you a small sense of accomplishment - yay, I finished a book today Best for: Frieda McFadden’s loyal fanclub Best quotes: “And I feel lighter - happier - all of a sudden.” “Sometimes it’s better to let go than to drag it out.”

BATB score: 8/10 reader discretion advised this is not a book, this is a white-paper research BATB summary: key point of the book > you weren’t allowed to explore and be your true self as a child, you model the ‘good boys good girls’ that your parents wanted you to be, all in exchange for parental ‘unconditional’ love; you were smart / gifted enough to comply, and thus, you grew up depressed and broken from living somebody else’s ‘good boys good girls’ life for no one but yo

BATB score: 8/10 👍 Best as: culture marketing playbook #legit Best to: everything in life is marketing - religion, music, global warming, everything Best for: marketers - “start with the soul and end with the sale” because “We were looking for fans when we should have been looking for believers.” BATB lingering thought: “If Thanksgiving is the day that we reflect on all that we have, then Black Friday is the day that we realize we don’t have enough.” damn, imagine a marketin

BATB score: 8/10 🥹 Best to: words of wisdom that is not forced down your throat Best as: BATB re-read and it still feels like a grandma’s warm hug; that fuzzy feeling that makes your heart mellow - melting marshmallow Best for: any mature adult who just needs a grandma’s loving embrace - grandma made soft chocolate chip cookie from the freezer heated in the microwave for a few seconds eaten on a kitchen towel on the sofa while watching Jeopardy! BATB lingering thought: Oprah

BATB score: 8/10 BATB re-read, still epic and critical 👏 Best as: a reminder to us all that it is a choice “just because I was invited didn’t seem a good enough reason to attend” Best for: don’t be that person on your deathbed regretting “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” Best to: how to say no gracefully “I am flattered that you thought of me but I’m afraid I don’t have the bandwidth.” or “I would very much like t

BATB score: 8/10 🫶 Adam Kay’s top five best medical memoirs recommendations Best as: a psychologist specializing in mood disorders who has bipolar disorder + maniac depression herself 🤯 Best to: beautifully written and eloquently narrated the feelings and struggles of depression Best for: a doctor’s memoir- I believe it is impossible for one to know what depression feels like unless you have had it Best quotes: “The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you fi