BATB score: 9/10 🫠 written in 1951, J. D. Salinger's book "the catcher in the rye" has been banned 9 times for being a 'bad influence' to young adult readers - excessive vulgar language (meh), sexual scenes (meh), and debatable moral issues on addictions (meh) likeas our world isn't full of these examples on a day to day the book has been linked to many real life high-profile murder cases - John Lennon's murder and President Ronald Reagan's attempted assassination - the murd

BATB score: 7/10 🍷 Amy Schumer is an introvert. Best to: casual, entertaining, relatable read about life - broken parents, siblings, drinking, boyfriends, and blackouts; likeas how we all are trying to understand what happened to us, who are we really, and where are we going exactly? Best for: you have to know who Amy Schumer is, have watched her stand-up on Netflix, or have watched her movie “Trainwreck” to be able to find this autobiography of hers interesting Best as: lig

BATB score: 7.5/10 ⚜️ a very interesting and yet an extremely complicated mission impossible (but was possible). plan - okay so, I'm going in as a prisoner, I'm going to survive, I'm going to collect as much intel as possible, I'll constantly try to relay / seek out info, I'm going to raise a secret army at the camp, then we're going to escape, and we're going to tell world, then we're going to attack from the outside and the inside of concentration camp, and save everybody e

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: 7/10 💙 Alice Oseman is a hands-down writer prodigy - signing her first publishing deal at 17 for Solitaire and signing with Netflix at 26 for HeartStopper which was written at 22! That’s a lot of accomplishment at such a young age my friend. #isaluteyou Best to: digital age / modern day “The Catcher in the Rye” - the struggles of a teen figuring out the world: gender identity, friendship, parental influences, oxbridge academic success, online trolls, YouTube fame