BATB score: 9/10 🐋🦑🐢 The most subtle and adorable way to alarm you about the effects of climate change to the polar bears, the orcas, and the narwhals. Best for: any kid who dreamt to be a marine biologist but had to succumb to his/her asian parents and became a doctor, a finance audit, and/or any typical all-star office employee instead 🧑‍💻👨‍💻 Best as: okay, mid-adult-children-book. it's illustration -> definitely too cute but its description -> hey-yo scientific big

BATB score: 2/10 for the 200/570 pages that I've read before giving up completely #Isurrender 🏳️ Too detailed for a 'short history' which can be 'even shorter' by half at least. Too many names and too many 'this happened, then that happened, but then there's that, and now it's this'. I am so sorry. I can not. Best as: good night story that will definitely put you to sleep or confuse you to coma Best to: it's okay, just skip it. Best for: I believe Yuval Noah and Bill Bryson

BATB score: 6.78/10 🌎 the world is my oyster 🌍 Best to: hands down the best introduction to geo-politics and the major subcontinental dynamics books for dummies trying to understand the world Best for: wanderer of the great planet or candidates for the United Nations Organization (UN) - you better read this book before the interviews; or blind date conversation starters 'so what's your thought on the disputed borders in the Middle East?' Best as: high school geo-politics co