BATB score: 9/10 🫠 written in 1951, J. D. Salinger's book "the catcher in the rye" has been banned 9 times for being a 'bad influence' to young adult readers - excessive vulgar language (meh), sexual scenes (meh), and debatable moral issues on addictions (meh) likeas our world isn't full of these examples on a day to day the book has been linked to many real life high-profile murder cases - John Lennon's murder and President Ronald Reagan's attempted assassination - the murd

BATB score: 9/10 🌈 psychologist Dr Julie Smith believes that everybody need to manage their mental well-being 💟 yet not everybody can afford a session with a psychologist; this book shares the techniques and supportive tool for you to self-DIY fix your mental health 💯 #thankyou Best to: when feeling overwhelmed, acknowledge that it is okay to feel overwhelmed, take a step back and ask "why is this so important to me?", maybe it is actually not that important and if it is i

BATB score: 9/10 ⭐️ Reader disclaimer: BATB loves Dan Ariely #fangirl love his writing style, his quirky experiments, and his natural curiosity to the oddest things; so would a picture of flowers 🌸 or of eyeballs 👀 make you more honest? Like what? Best to: so how do we cheat without feeling too bad about cheating when not cheating at all is just stupid Best as: so the extent of cheating increases when you believe you are Robin Hood “we cheat because we are good people who c

BATB score: 9/10 🙏 Best as: it’s a holocaust survivor’s memoir plus a self-help guide to happiness - a 2-in-1 combo! so this book does not end once he has escaped Auschwitz but continues on with how he doesn’t hate Hitler and how his biggest revenge is “to be the happiest man on earth” Best to: check out Eddie Jaku’s 11-minutes TedX Talk “A Holocaust survivor’s blueprint for happiness” it is pretty much what the whole book is about BATB lingering thought: so Eddie Jaku wrote

BATB score: 9/10 💉💊❤️‍🩹 Best to: wow wow wow what a story! I have never heard anything like this before and never would have been able to predict what would happen next; definitely a page turner! Best as: boy, I think about it every night and day. I’m addicted wanna drown inside your love. I wouldn’t wanna have it any other way, I’m addicted and I just can’t get enough Best for: you know how you still have a moral compass but yet things just spiraled for the worst? BATB li

BATB score: 9/10 💚 Best for: almost a 10/10! It’s just that he wrote this book truly for himself to remember the past and to grateful for the future. “Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?” Nothing wrong with that. It’s just like I am that sneaky nosey neighbor reading this personal book of his. Best to: a very fun and casual read about the life of Matthew McConaughey Best as: for sure, Matthew McConaughey is extremely talented in acting and writing 💯

BATB score: 9/10 👏 Bruce Jenner - USA olympic gold medalist, macho superhero, father of Kendall and Kylie Jenner; VS his feminine soul 🫶 Best to: psychology coined societal term “spotlight effect” make our lives an unnecessary performance BATB lingering thought: very clever! truly working smart! share your story then have a renowned professional author Buzz Bissinger write your memoir; because every celebrity has a good story but not all celebrity can be an author 💯 Best a

BATB score: 9/10 💗💎 wow what a comeback for Paris Hilton! Best to: what we’ve known about Paris Hilton has only been in the tabloid and what a brilliant book to tell her side of the story (book release 2023) BATB lingering thought: ‘tabloid’ refers to dumb content that actually makes you dumber and dumber Best as: after reading this memoir, to me, Paris Hilton is a very smart entrepreneur who is so clever to make herself a brand; she’s the OG KOL influencer way before socia

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 Britney Spears is such a sensation and a legend 🙇🏻‍♀️ Best to: if we talk about world peace, literally one thing that binds the world is our shared love for Britney Spears songs and lyrics [I Just Can't Sleep / I'm So Excited, I'm In Too Deep] Best for: your family can become toxic when money is involved Best as: wow 13-years in a conservatorship is insane; only in USA; 1.3M active cases right now BATB linger thought: dear Britney Spears, I am so happy t

BATB score: 9/10 👌🏻 10/10 book but it’s like 6 books in 1 book (1 chapter = 1 book in itself), intense shit - a typical Joe can not digest this Best to: kudos to Eric Barker for concluding shitloads of research paper synopsis, numerous behavioral experiments and results, and quotes from so many influential authors, while adding one’s valuable deciphers; literally knitting it all-in into one book 💯 Best for: there so much material in this book for you to chew, digest, and p

BATB score: 9/10 🙏 *reader discretion advised* advanced reading skills required; quite scientific and nerdy Best to: macronutrients of happiness > enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose; optimize what is important > family, friendship, work, and faith; when in doubt, you are just one of 8 billion human beings so be grateful, be in the present, and know that you will die soon Best for: whenever you’re unhappy, go walk bare foot in nature and find the experience of ‘awe’ - “the

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 sending unsolicited emails to Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg asking for an interview may get you a hand-written rejection which is already content material 💯 Best as: diary of a 19-year-old dropout getting an exclusive interview with Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, and Lady Gaga 👏 via leveraging the “third door”connections aka persistence; never try never know The first door: the main entrance - where 99% of the people wait around hoping to get in The seco

BATB Score: 9.5/10 🎨🖌️ Best for: we all need this book - fresh grads, midlife crisis, early retirement, Forbes 40 under 40 - we all need to take a day and just complete the workbook (at least once and forever more over and over again) BATB lingering thought: -0.5 points because there were moments in the book that I was like, 🙄 I understand already please stop repeating yourself Best to: why wasn’t this taught in school?! this is critical! emergency! paging Dr. Beat emergen

BATB score: 9/10 🤯 it’s uber difficult to land an epic sequel, so I had the lowest expectations, but boom boom clap! Freida! who are you?! you did it again! Best to: Freida McFadden (ahh it’s only a pen name), Harvard graduate, practicing physician specializing in brain injury, is a fantastic thriller author BATB lingering thought: maybe doctors make the best thriller psychological authors? Best as: total 11 years of writing 27 books and finally getting her international fam

BATB score: 9/10 💛 Best for: you can not read this book if you haven’t read the first book in this sequel - “The Perfect Child” Lucinda Berry Best as: Dr. Lucinda Berry, former psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma, is such a great author on mind thrillers 👏 Best to: know that it is only available on Kindle BATB lingering thought: I loved “The Perfect Child” so much that I very much wanted to read this short story sequel “A Welcome Reunion” that I bought a

BATB score: 9/10 🥹👏 *reader discretion advised* not for the gentle souls but hear me out, “The only way to stop it, is to find a way to tell, and that the very best revenge, is to survive and survive well.” Best as: telling her own story; since 4-years-old, Shy Keenan was physically and sexually abused and prostituted to paedophiles by her stepdad, for 10+ years Social Services didn’t save her, and finally at 40-years-old she put her stepdad in jail; today, she runs Phoenix

BATB score: 9.5/10 🤯 interesting indeed, “Die with Zero” is the idea that we make all that money, we spend all that money within our prime health, and we die with zero (not negative but zero excess) in the bank - yolo Best for: you’ve did it! you’ve already made way too much money! - now please spend more and “make ‘maximize total life enjoyment’ your mantra” Best to: build more net worth for who again? “wealth will decline to zero by the date of death” anyways BATB lingerin

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 second time reading this beautiful reminder to reclaiming life from work (that awful work that will never love you back) Best to: have other defining identities beyond work, ask “what do you like to do?” over “what do you do” > I am a avid reader, author of Beauty and The Book page, a travel the world enthusiast, a beloved friend to some / a mean friend to some, a good asian daughter and daughter-in-law, I have sailor-moon energy to share, some call me sun

BATB score: 9/10 👏 oh my god Freida! girlfriend WTF, my stomach churns, shortage of breathe, need to pause, need to slow down, and need to digest, before you reveal the truth Best to: an extremely moving read, welcome to Freida McFadden’s signature writing style, that moves your brain, your heart, your gut Best as: I strongly believe that reading a book is supposed to be like this, it’s supposed to be fun, one that you can’t put the book down, one that you don’t regret readi

BATB score: 9/10 BATB linger thought: Freida’s real mother was the first person to read the first draft of this book and she said “wow”; sometimes we all need a wow Best to: read an academic book and then read a Frieda McFadden book or else you will just be too smart for life Best as: it’s like I try to guess what’s going to happen and still completely missed it Best for: McFans Best quote: “I’m done living in the fast lane. Done rushing to make deadlines and getting pushed d