{"id":339,"date":"2007-09-17T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/absolutely-true-book-review-in-the-la-times-today\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T17:43:54","slug":"absolutely-true-book-review-in-the-la-times-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/absolutely-true-book-review-in-the-la-times-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely True book review in the LA Times today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"164\" height=\"164\" id=\"image338\" alt=\"absolutelytruecover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/absolutelytruecover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/la-bk-carpenter16sep16,0,4659044.story?coll=la-books-center\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> another enthusiastic review of Diary, with this about me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arnold wants to be an artist. He&#8217;s constantly drawing comics about his life on crumpled scraps of paper, which the reader sees every few pages. These black-and-white drawings are by Seattle-based cartoonist Ellen Forney, who, through a mix of rough sketches and more artfully done images, captures the frustrated Arnold&#8217;s isolation, anger and humor as well as the situations that are driving him to put pen to paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another enthusiastic review of Diary, with this about me: &#8220;Arnold wants to be an artist. He&#8217;s constantly drawing comics about his life on crumpled scraps of paper, which the reader sees every few pages. These black-and-white drawings are by Seattle-based cartoonist Ellen Forney, who, through a mix of rough sketches and more artfully done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/absolutely-true-book-review-in-the-la-times-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Absolutely True book review in the LA Times today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}