BATB score: 7/10 😱 reader discretion advised: not for the faint-hearted; painful tales of children born in North Korea concentration camps Best as: from reading so many North Korea escapee stories, this one stands out as he had to escape from the concentration camps first and only then escaped from North Korea like the other escapee stories Best for: North Korea stories enthusiast Best to: scarier than North Korea is today’s genocide in Gaza; scarier because this is globally

BATB score: 9/10 👏 Best as: Bill Gates’ 2025 recommended read is 700 pages long; took BATB a distracted 1 month to complete - enjoyed most of the chapters tho Best to: a memoir of a New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner sharing the behind the scenes of Tiananmen Square, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, sex slave in Southeast Asia, Cuba warlords and so much more reportings BATB lingering thought: now where’s the line between passive reporting a

BATB score: 7/10 🤯 BATB loves victim’s memoir - own your story 💪 yeah! from the front page news, the unbelievable tragic story, the imprisonment, the documentary, “The Act” movie spin off; yes girl, you tell your story! Best for: you need prior knowledge on Dee Dee and Gypsy case, extreme Munchausen by Proxy, actually very famous case you should know BATB TL;DR: “When Dee Dee Blanchard was twenty-four years old, she gave life to me. When I was nearly twenty-four years old,

BATB score: 6/10 😂 *reader discretion advised* BATB just wanted to know how did this comedian, Matt Rife, ended up on BATB’s For You feed?!? Best as: ahh okay, Matt Rife has always wanted to be a comedian and so he did! by self-sponsoring his first stand up show, posting clips on all social media, hit the jackpot with Tiktok For You algorithm, and boom ta da! 🎉 world tour sold out 👏 Netflix Christmas special and wrote a memoir 🤯 took 12 years Best for: you must have seen

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: 6/10 🤔 a BATB re-read in memory of Baek Sehee #RIP Best to: we don’t know why Baek Sehee passed away at 35 years old though I do hope she passed away peacefully or at the very least at peace finally BATB lingering thought: from re-reading her book on her mental struggles - persistent depressive disorder - and her POV on free death, you have your suspicions but it doesn’t matter Best as: if that’s really the case, according to the details of the book, I don’t thin

BATB score: 1/10 😤 Best to: Hawkeye, you are an actor and not an author; writing is not a good career path for you; your writing style is annoying Best as: just watch the 60-seconds tiktok video on Jeremy Renner’s snowplow incident; yes, he almost died, yes, he is okay now, yes, he is grateful Best for: you mentioned on page 1 that you didn’t want to write this book, yeah, you shouldn’t BATB lingering thought: aiyah, another celebrity writing a book to squeeze out some passi

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 Best for: female 30+ years old reminiscing those good old days and questioning what does the future holds Best as: a millennial’s memoir about those younger sexier years going on Tinder dates BATB lingering thought: damn it, yes, Tinder was super fun for Millennials and no longer relevant for Gen Z 😭 Best to: it’s more about that few bffs that you have for life, heartfelt enjoyable read Best quotes: “You have to choose which you’d rather be: the woman who

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: 7/10 🫶 re-read of BATB’s favorite books: Adam Kay quits becoming a doctor and became a comedian instead 💯 this book is his diary entries Best to: would love to read about the thought process of leaving at the final year of doctor residency, one’s mental talk, stakeholders / family expectation management, and how does one come back and make sense of it all Best as: any career is tough when you put your heart into it 🥹 Best for: anyone who wants to be a doctor or

BATB score: 6/10 Best to: pretty much common sense on what not to do when you get old but a good reminder nonetheless Best as: a fun and funny read Best for: a memoir of a 60+ year old, Steven Petrow, renowned Washington Post and New York Times journalist, yet his most treasured memories were not about work; anybody who needs this reminder Best quotes: “each of us is old when we think we are - when we accept an attitude of dormancy, dependence on others, a substantial limitat

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