BATB score: 9/10 🤔 Best as: workaholism is not only / not just putting extra hours at work, it’s a toxic mental illness Best for: anyone who can relate > “Workaholism involves that feeling in the pit of your stomach that you can’t rest, that you ought to be working all the time. Workaholism also involves feeling guilty and anxious when you are not working. It’s the fact that even if you are not physically doing work, you are thinking about that email you should send, mulling

BATB score: 2/10 🙄 Best as: this is not a book; it’s a collection of individual pieces of writings and interviews of other people talking about “stupidity” Best to: the more you read the more redundant it is; you start to question yourself, why the hell are you reading this book? Best for: anyone who appreciate it’s title and cover; that’s about it BATB lingering thought: dear future self, when writing our own book one day, make sure of a killer title and appealing cover des

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: 3/10 🙄 Best to: please say hello to your higher self on my behalf; made it to chapter 7 and I can’t go any further Best as: the problem is, it’s a lot of personal anecdotes - unsubstantiated with any material; love the exercise guide but pretty basic, been there, done that Best for: I believe I have exercised by Higher Self by deciding to put this book down 😇 BATB lingering thought: this trend for self-help / self-love.. bring about a lot of fake gurus and wanna

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: 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: 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

BATB score: 6/10 🚫 reader discretion advised this book is trying to pitch for an unpopular opinion that “while grit is a virtue, quitting is a vice” that quitting is a winner mentality - tough pitch indeed Best for: when quitting is the better obvious choice, can we clap for quitters? Best to: there are marathon runners who finished the race despite a broken leg because quitting is not an option Best as: applause for the Mount Everest climbers who turned back and didn’t mak