{"id":3061,"date":"2014-04-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2014-03-26T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:05:38","slug":"b-is-being-a-little-fish-by-ramsey-beyer-book-review-art-school-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3061","title":{"rendered":"B is being a Little Fish, by Ramsey Beyer (book review) &#8211; art school graphic novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Fish1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3394\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=3394\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Fish1.jpg?fit=315%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"315,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Little Fish\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Fish1.jpg?fit=315%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3394\" alt=\"book cover of Little Fish by Ramsey Beyer published by Zest Books\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Fish1-198x300.jpg?resize=198%2C300\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Fish1.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Fish1.jpg?w=315&amp;ssl=1 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Small-town art dreams,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/beta.baltimore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big-city<\/a> college realities,<br \/>\nCan she really make it in art school?<\/p>\n<p>Opening her memorabilia box filled with journals, <a href=\"http:\/\/zinebook.com\/whatcha1.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;zines<\/a>, sketches and lists from freshman year of art school inspired Ramsey to tell her own story in this graphic novel of self-discovery.<\/p>\n<p>What scares you about starting something new?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>: Little Fish: a Memoir From a Different Kind of Year \/ Ramsey Beyer. Zest Books, 2013.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/everydaypants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/zestbooks.net\/little-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My book talk<\/strong>: After graduation, Ramsey is oh-so ready to leave her small Michigan town for art school in Baltimore&#8230; isn&#8217;t she?<\/p>\n<p>This graphic novel uses pages from the young artist&#8217;s actual journals, lists, &#8216;zines, and cartoons to show how she conquered her freshman fears to make friends, explore her new city, and expand her personal and artistic horizons in this memoir chronicling ups, downs, detours, discoveries, and distractions. (One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small-town art dreams, Big-city college realities, Can she really make it in art school? Opening her memorabilia box filled with journals, &#8216;zines, sketches and lists from freshman year of art school inspired Ramsey to tell her own story in this graphic novel of self-discovery. What scares you about starting something new? **kmm Book info: Little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,80,23],"tags":[10,124,22,7,4,11,5,16,44,46,43,49,15,9,21,35,190,3,6,53,8],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-graphic-novel","category-nonfiction","tag-a2z","tag-art","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-tbr2013","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}