Summer Reading: Michael Aviad Recommends –

More A Sweet Life Aug 22, 2011, 12:58 pm


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, I spend more than enough time reading about diabetes.  When I get some down time I like to escape into other worlds, usually reading historical books like the Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton or mysteries like Jo Nesbo’s Red Breast.
When I first heard about the memoir  Not Dead Yet by champion cyclist, Phil Southerland, I wondered how I would feel reading it.  Would it be just another diabetes book? After just a few pages I knew that it was not.  I enjoyed it from the start.

In Not Dead Yet Phil Southerland tells his story from diagnosis with type 1 diabetes at 7 months to leading his own cycling team, Team Type 1.  Southerla … Read the Rest

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