Diabetes – Cannonball Read 17

Diabetes and demon summoning, oh my!

Mixing Magics by Clare Edge

June 10, 2025 by LB 1 Comment

I was semi-recently diagnosed as T2 diabetic, so as soon as I saw Ber’s story I knew I needed to get my hands on it, even as my experiences are different from hers (and not just because she accidentally summons demons with her finger sticks lol), and I loved Accidental Demons so much. I’m so glad I was able to read Mixing Magics early and now have the opportunity to scream at everyone to pick it up. Mixing Magics picks up about a month after […]

A Good Starter Cookbook for Diabetics

Betty Crocker Simply Delicious Diabetes Cookbook by Betty Crocker

February 18, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

This is not my usual kind of cookbook. A dear friend told me that they needed to make some dietary changes because their blood sugar levels were consistently high, though not yet over the diabetes threshold. They were stressed because they didn’t really know what they needed to do, what to eat, what to not eat, and so on. An hour later I was looking at NetGalley and there was the Betty Crocker Simply Delicious Diabetes Cookbook. I don’t have any expertise in what makes […]

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Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin by Deborah Kerbel

December 16, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin by Deborah Kerbel and illustrated by Angela Poon is a graphic novel that is based on the true events that lead to the discovery that would easily save over 100 million people: insulin. There is simple text showing the events of the early 1920s that made it possible to treat type 1 diabetes, or Juvenile diabetes. There are the images that show that before the early 1920s the treatment was starvation and therefore, […]

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