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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
BATB score: 7/10 🧐 Best as: 100 most influential novel by BBC News 2019 - might as well ✅ Best to: a novel about bisexuality and internalized homophobia, sensitive masculinity and social alienation back in 1956 where everything is controversial 🧐 wowza Best for: literature as an art form ; art appreciation Best quotes: “People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also t


The Tenant by Freida McFadden
BATB score: 6/10 🔪 🩸 Best for: McFans - Freida McFadden loyal fans Best to: a classic Freida McFadden twist and turn suspenseful fiction Best as: reading for fun Best quote: “Is it such an awful thing to want retribution against people who have wronged you?”


Lights Out by Navessa Allen
BATB score: 3/10 ☠️ reader discretion advised sexually explicit content; every detail, kinks, and all 🫠 Best as: Kindle #1 best seller and #1 most read under Erotica category - got me curious, never read never know Best to: holy moly 💀 erotica indeed, porno in book form; interesting, are all our erotica fantasy similar and so predictable? BATB confession: couldn’t finish the book, didn’t feel invested in the characters nor the storyline; too girly berry, chick-flick but


Hunger by Choi Jin-Young
BATB score: 3/10 🤷♀️ Best to: either you love it or you hate it; wasn’t able to feel the characters and thus wasn’t able to be invested nor admire the story Best as: longing of two souls to the point of cannabalism Best for: maybe this book is better in original Korean language? Best quotes: “Faith is the key to grasping absurdity.” “Are those who fire the guns and take the bullets ever those who start the war?” “To be freed from this suffering - and if that’s not doable, t
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