Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All summer ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. Can you think of line that’s better than the title of this book for a doctor to tell someone as she’s being diagnosed with diabetes? Instead of: You’ve...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All summer ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. I don’t usually read “diabetes” books, at least not for pleasure reading. Since my wife and I both have diabetes and we run a diabetes website,...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All summer ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites.   I recently read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit.  It’s a non-fiction account of a man who was about to break the 4-minute mile back...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All month ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. An important book about diabetes is “Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness” by Chris Feudtner.  The New England Journal of...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All month ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. There are any number of adult books out there that I would be happy to suggest for summer reading:  Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad” and...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All month ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. Time to Think : Listening to Ignite the Human Mind by Nancy Kline. I haven’t read a book that has stuck with me like this one in a long time. Kline, an international...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All month ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. The book I’ve been recommending to everyone this summer is The Emperor of All Maladies, A Biography of Cancer.  It’s a fabulous history of the last 200 years...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All month ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. For the science geeks I recommend The Brain That Changes Itself. This book tells fascinating stories of patients and researchers in the evolving area of neuroplasticity....

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All month ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. My book recommendation has little to do with diabetes, but here it is: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. This is a book about an alternate...

Are you looking for a good book to take along on your vacation this summer?  All month long ASweetLife’s bloggers and contributors will be sharing some of their favorites. My favorite diabetes book is Pumping Insulin but it’s not exactly the sort of paperback you’d want to bring to the beach. So instead I’ll recommend...