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: 4/10 💧🌼 Okay. I am unsure on whether you wanted this book to be a behavioral economics book or an autobiography; either way the switch of sort confuses things. Best to: if you are going to read one Susan Cain book, check out “Quiet” instead Best as: the four humors are melancholic (sad), sanguine (happy), choleric (aggressive), and phlegmatic (calm); feeling alive is to feel all these Best for: people who experience fluctuations of happiness and sorrow has a hig

BATB score: 8/10 💕 a few weeks after Osamu Dazai wrote No Longer Human, he and his wife committed suicide by drowning in a canal near their house; that was also a week before his 39th birthday *reader discretion advised* this book is not for everyone; this book covers suicide, addiction, abuse, depression, depersonalization disorder Best to: this book is a semi-autobiography, semi-novel, semi-suicide-death-note; it’s like he is trying to tell us something, a final word to wh

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: 6/10 🧡 *reader discretion advised* max advanced level reading skill required; this book about trauma can actual cause trauma in readers Best to: an in-depth analysis on how our toxic society makes us claim “this feels good. I want more” instead of the more valuable meaning of life “this feels good. I am contented. I am complete.” Best as: “The perceived need to be what the world demands becomes entangled with our sense of who we are and how we seek love.” - 500 p

BATB score: 8/10 🌸 *reader discretion advised* an advanced white paper making a breakthrough point on how the body says ’NO’ to a life spent living for someone else via chronic illnesses Best to: a sentence from the book that best describe the mood and tone and the premise of the book > “The dynamic interplay between social-conflict events and joint pain describe a homeostatic system in which negative social interaction is regulated through worsening of the disease.” Best fo

BATB score: 7/10 🥹 Best as: a forensic psychiatrist sharing her notes from speaking to 11 inmates: serial killers, pedophiles, murderer, stalker, abuser; pleading for a chance to hold our judgement and hear them out; this book could have been a 10/10 if it was written by a writer VS a doctor (select only 5/11 stories, thriller narration, highlight the who-what) Best for: for aspirational forensic psychiatrists > 11 case studies Best to: “society needs to condemn a little les

BATB score: 6/10 🫣 good stuff but needles in a haystack Best as: why your pupil dilates and why you look down when you flirt with someone you like; and how to catch a lie by only observing eye movement > doubles as a cool party trick, two truth and one lie winner forever Best for: how to catch your boyfriend cheating with just his eye movement > remembering image looks up, remembering sound looks sideways, remembering feelings looks down Best to: the most important business

BATB score: 8/10 👏 *reader discretion advised* this is not a book, this is a white paper research on how homo sapiens can better communicate with other homo sapiens *advanced reading level required* there are some very good chapters and some very meh chapters; the long, various his/her/their anecdotes makes it boring at times Best as: very well-researched, extremely academic, theoretical dump, nerdy read Best for: Yuval Noah Harari would love this book as it is advocating fo

BATB score 9/10 🥹 Best as: honesty, if I have had her psychiatrist and had to endure these psychiatrist’s advices / conversations, I would have commit suicide too #RIP Best to: Korean psychiatrists is biased to the importance of keeping up with work you hate, guilt tripping quitting work, and ideal women’s appearances ie. Korean fat camp Best for: tough to be Korean Best quotes: “Do you think this depression, this helplessness, decreases interest or curiosity or fun in life?

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: 10/10 🥹 Best as: finally a book that explains mothers, mother-daughter issues, and how daughter can work through them 👏 Best to: extremely practical with checklist to verify whether you do have a narcissistic mother and whether you have been an affected daughter ie. Do you feel valued by your mother for what you do, rather than for who you are? Best for: daughters who never felt that they were ever good enough for their mothers 🥹 Best quotes: “Because good girl