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: 4/10 🫤 Ellen DeGeneres’ jokes are so predictable (since this book published in 2011).� Best as: let me break down Ellen’s joke structure - superficial topic about day-to-day stuff, tangent talk to other random thoughts that comes to mind, and ending by making no sense at all and making a fool out of herself; e.g. I love the Spice Girls. I love spices too. But not all spices. Some spice makes me sick. What was I talking about? The end. Best to: unfortunately it’s

BATB score: 8/10 💛 Best as: the most adorable gift you can give to anyone in their 30s; it’s about a typical thirties-year-old version of a mid-life crisis Best to: key takeaways - give less furck about work or quits 9 to 5, loves drinking still and will diet tomorrow, bff is pet cat/dog, learns to live happily alone while being jealous of everybody else 💯 Best for: could 30s be the new midlife? BATB lingering thought: fried chicken with beer is a global meaning of life ❤️

BATB score: 10/10 ❤️‍🩹 wow just wow. 👏👏👏 Best to: a very important read for our generation about complex-PTSD from our upbringings, to adulthood dark clouds, to cutting ties (the frown upon / non-asian way) to heal, to finding numerous alternative help, and just surviving day by day 🥹 Best for: anyone who resonates with this statement “the stress of not meeting their elders’ expectations in a culture where they have to please their elders is real” Best as: “the three P’s

BATB score: 7/10 🥹 epic deep deep stuff about forgiving your mom and dad ❤️‍🩹 Best as: it’s a research textbook proposing, justifying, and dissecting the sole premise that “maybe the trauma we’re experiencing may not be ours but rather our parent’s, our grandparent’s, and/or our great-grandparent’s trauma (that is left unsolved)”. Best to: an extremely debatable premise that needs further research and exploration but definitely a great initial effort by Mark Wolynn 👏 [2016

BATB score: 2/10 🙏🏻 oiiii such a waste of brain cells Best to: you know that one uncle who went solo travelling around the world with his retirement money, then came back to every family gathering and could not shut up about it? yeah, Pico Iyer is that uncle. Best as: "The struggle of your life is your paradise." - my struggle right now is uncle's travel diary BATB lingering thought: better to watch travel vlogs on YouTube; okay, thank you uncle for reminding all of us to t

BATB score: 3/10 🙈 This book covers only one premise: pay attention to details / look objectively and carefully (that's about it) 👀 Best to: a thick-ass book with numerous examples repeating the same premise above; this whole book can be summarized into a one-pager or a 18-mins TedTalk BATB lingering thought: I hate the way this book is written. Reminds me of school where the teacher asks the class the extremely obvious annoying question "can anyone tell me what is in this

BATB score: 6.6/10 🌸 I truly admire the effort in writing this comprehensive, thoroughly researched book, must have taken ages! kudos kudos 👏 Best to: this book is a great opening, pinpointing all the gender gaps and its implications, data-driven, fully-backed, completely-supported; yet, my only problem is that there are no next steps; what can I do? what difference can I make (other than being super aware - 300-pages of awareness)? Best for: iPhones are too heavy for women

BATB score: 6.6/10 👰‍♀️ oh my god! sorry, can not use god’s name in vain, oh my goodness! what is this book!?! Book is saying: A. “[…] know […] of the Spirit in your life, [and] you will have enough love ‘in the bank’ to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment” B. “Your spouse and your marriage must be the number one priority in your life.” C. “Sex is god’s appointed way for two people to reciprocally say to one anoth

BATB score: 10/10 🧢 Best to: just be there and do nothing - rental person’s pro bono story with request like can you watch me work on lazy WFH, walk with me home on a bad day, sit with me at a cafe while I order a girly beverage of apple soda, listen to me and only say “aha”, watch me play on the swing, stand and wave at me at the marathon finish line, etc is so interesting! Best as: the human need for a new type of relationship that is in between strangers and friends; the

BATB score: 2/10🧃 not all famous actors/actresses can be a worthwhile author - extremely non-captivating Best as: anger-inducing book due to 29 chapters of the same content over and over again; extremely monotone with the most boring, insignificant anecdotal stories that do nothing for the readers BATB lingering thought: so when you write a memoir at least it should be in chronological order from childhood to yesterday, include a few unseen pictures - photo book stuff, have

BATB score: 10/10 🥹 words of wisdom from a 102-years-old grandma about the meaning of life, joy, and love #sobeautiful p.s. she is still alive! now at 103-years-old living happily in Arizona; yes, I googled 👵 Best to: because being alive is not the same as truly living; truly six secrets to health and happiness at every age - crisp, clear, sincere, no further questions Best as: a grandma’s warm embrace and reminder that all is well with you and the world ❤️‍🩹 BATB lingerin

BATB score: 7/10 💚💙 BATB reading level: advanced - strong discipline and determination required to finish reading this book Best to: know that there are three types of people: takers, matchers, and givers; “being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon” yet, we are all three / tri-polar depending on the circumstances Best as: better to just take the quiz https://adamgrant.net/quizzes/give-and-take-quiz/ , acknowledge that you are a selfish p

BATB score: 4/10 🍎 when life is truly not on your side - the minute you are born, you have drawn the short straw and life is forever against you at the end of the day, it’s a really good story; you understand why innocent baby grew up gangsta, killing people, and ended up in jail and you feel the love the mother truly has for her children even when she have nothing to offer Best for: daredevils - the book is so longgggg (525 pages with font size 10 est. minimum reading 20+ h

BATB score: 6/10 💭 started out very interesting and then deteriorated with every succeeding chapters; better to read Oliver Burkeman’s more recent masterpiece BATB 9/10 ‘Four Thousand Weeks’ 2021 Best as: key premise - when you expect the worst, you are more calm when the worst actually happen; thus maybe it is better to live with negative thinking and stop forcing positive thinking (because who are you? teletubbies?!) Best for: you know how the book “The Secret” claimed tha

BATB score: 5/10 🧐 *reader discretion advised* I personally love Daniel Keyes’ masterpiece “Flowers for Algernon” 1958 [BATB 10/10] and wanted to explore his other works “The Minds of Billy Milligan” 1981 Best to: Imagine 1977, a serious crime of kidnap and rape at Ohio State University has break loose where the suspect is a 22-year-old young male with 24 different personality; the world’s very first case of schizophrenia; then Billy Milligan, the suspect himself, wrote to D

BATB score: 5/10 💥 written in 500 BC, a blueprint / playbook to war, oh my my this book is literally a part of history! Best to: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is written in bullet points, short quotable phrases, short words of wisdom, and immediately moving onto the next short quotable phrase - kinda like reading a meme lol Best as: “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” OKAY NEXT! “Move swift as the Wind and closely

BATB score: 2/10 🙄 i don’t like this book, i don’t like it at all; but can I be kind? can I be nice? can I be humble? and glass half full? try my best to see the good in the junk, the genuine intentions and the kind words of advice that McCormack sincerely wants to leave behind? no, I can not. 🫠 Best to: it’s a book written by an uncle telling you to do 1-2-3, then 4-5-6, and then 7-8-9 to be successful; legit advices just too many overloading, redundant, mundane tips and t

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: 1/10 💔 Best to: I don’t want to read another page of this book. I can not read any more. BATB death page 45/243 🏴‍☠️ Best as: Happiness = Happiness Set Point (Meditation, Cognitive Therapy, Prozac) + Living Conditions (External Forces 70K USD/Year) + Voluntary Activities (Progress Principle [something to strive for], Immediate Feedback, Connection to Others); thank you Jeffrey Marr for the cartoon summary of this book - true life saver 🛟 Best for: go to the boo