Prompt: A book with a protagonist who has your occupation

[Stina]

My primary occupations are writer and musician, so I might count You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. Should I start another folder for job-specific book recommendations?

[Xanthi]

Being a librarian, I already have that one covered! See my comment on the 'cat on the cover' thread.

[Rendiru]

This is a real challenge for me. So far the only "audiologist" protagonist I've found isn't actually an audiologist. I might have to go looking for one of my earlier occupations.

[Cindi]

Not having an occupation I think I'm going to pass on this one.

[Cheryl]

One of the days when I realize being an attorney is a good thing. :)

I will keep my eyes peeled for any books about audiologists.

[Stina]

Cindi wrote: "Not having an occupation I think I'm going to pass on this one."

Well, that opens it up to any protagonist who does not have an occupation!

I know, I know, I'm not crazy about this one. I didn't come up with it, and there's a good reason I didn't complete it for the original PopSugar challenge last year.

[Stina]

I actually went with Murder in G Major for this one.

Any luck yet with the audiologist protagonist, Rendiru? I'm curious, what was the "audiologist" protagonist really?

[Mary]

What is my profession? Well, I guess it would be Stay-At-Home-Mom. So, for this topic I have read Replacement Child by Judy L. Mandel. The SAHM in this book is Judy's mother. In the winter of 1951-1952 three passenger airplanes crashed on Elizabeth, New Jersey. The second of these planes fell on a residential area on several houses, including Judy's parents' house. Judy's mother was home with her mother and two-year-old daughter. Because the weather was nasty, Judy's oldest sister, Donna, and her friend decided to leave school instead of staying for an extra-curricular activity and go to Donna's house. This was a fatal decision, as they arrived just minutes before the plane crashed. Donna died, and the two-year-old sister (and Donna's friend) was burnt over 80% of her body. Eventually, in an attempt to mend their broken family, Judy's mother and father decided to try for another child. This Replacement Child is Judy. This is subtitled "a memoir", as part of it is Judy trying to make sense of her life. Some of it is information given by her family, some found during Judy's research. Some parts of it must be her imaginings of what her parents had actually done or thought, as it is clear that they never spoke to her in detail about these things.

[Stina]

I also read You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, which counts I guess. The author is a musician-turned-author, and that's kinda what I am, though I still do the music thing. It's not super-clear if she's still in music, and I don't care enough to find out. (No, I don't recommend the book.)