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Kay's Marvellous Medicine: A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body
BATB score: 4.5/10 😒 Adam Kay, I love you but this book was definitely trying too hard to be funny; the overloading cheap jokes on every page, here and there and everywhere, made this book painful to read Best to: be grateful for our healthcare and medical advancement from our historical medieval (sparkle times) doctor's recommendation to consume a hot cup of pee 🟡 and a pinch of poo 💩 when you feel unwell #healingproperties Best for: collectors of Adam Kay's books 📚 Best


WILL by Will Smith
BATB score: 10/10 💕 the best autobiography written in mankind, the making, the struggles, the crack, the enlightenment of Will Smith 😎 very clever that Will Smith wrote this book, I respect his legacy even more 💪 Best to: it's about not wanting to be second in anything, about being a dreamer with wings that outshines your family/marriage, and about 'enough' happiness after tremendous success Best for: if you think Will Smith was a great actor in the movie 'The Pursuit of H


The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage by Ryan Holiday
BATB score: 3/10 😡 *and this score is me being nice; unpopular book review alert* redundancy at it's best, he said, she said, same shit Best to: this book is like a consultant; thoroughly researched (did their homework), professionally written/presented (tactful), saying all the right things, but OMG they're just quotes, nice concepts, impractical, fake, and fluffy OK?! Best for: plenty of instagramable quotes - urgh, it's so fake, I can not. Honestly, I believe I tackle my


Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
BATB score: 7.6/10 🧐 well-researched, well-written, thoroughly analysed groundwork on how being a generalist makes you see the bigger picture and allows you to creatively strategise more than specialists; a very nerdy book #nerdalert Best to: serious documentation and experiments on how generalist rules, scrutinising the common belief that favors specialisation; yet redundant with the last few chapters quite wishy washy 💦 Best for: a lot of tech / business key opinion leade


Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
BATB score: 6.6/10 🦞 Best to: the first 120-pages will bore you, the second 120-pages will arouse you, the third 120-pages will make you curious and even consider it a good book, and the last few pages will stun you and justify the book as a great novel; yet, I can not forgive you for the first 120-pages Best for: experienced and patient novel readers who would be willing to read through the first 120-pages of boredom and is steadfast focused to finish novels 🤓 Best as: oh
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