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It Looks Like This
It Looks Like This | Rafi Mittlefehldt
33 posts | 18 read | 16 to read
In spare, understated prose heightened by a keen lyricism, a debut author will take your breath away. A new state, a new city, a new high school. Mike s father has already found a new evangelical church for the family to attend, even if Mike and his plainspoken little sister, Toby, don t want to go. Dad wants Mike to ditch art for sports, to toughen up, but there s something uneasy behind his demands. Then Mike meets Sean, the new kid, and "hey" becomes games of basketball, partnering on a French project, hanging out after school. A night at the beach. The fierce colors of sunrise. But Mike s father is always watching. And so is Victor from school, cell phone in hand. In guarded, Carveresque prose that propels you forward with a sense of stomach-dropping inevitability, Rafi Mittlefehldt tells a wrenching tale of first love and loss that exposes the undercurrents of a tidy suburban world. Heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming, "It Looks Like This "is a novel of love and family and forgiveness not just of others, but of yourself."
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pocketmermaid
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This is a test for Litsy! I will update the blurb later. Hi!! Update: I needed to take a screen recording for an error I‘m having on Litsy. Anyway, this is another book that a trans library teen recommended that I haven‘t had time to read yet! So many books, so little time.

sprainedbrain Hi! 👋🏻 😃 6y
pocketmermaid @sprainedbrain Hi! Maybe I will just leave the blurb as is! 😂 6y
JennyM Hi 👋 6y
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MrsGreen
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This is only $5 with the Target Cartwheel app this week! Looking forward to reading it!

Kaylamburson What‘s the cartwheel app?? 🤸🏻‍♀️ 6y
MrsGreen @Kaylamburson It‘s Target‘s app that gives you in store coupons! 6y
Peddler410 @Kaylamburson You need the Target app and Cartwheel is a part of that. It used to be it‘s own thing. 6y
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cdreincarnate
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Absolutely gorgeous YA, LGBTQ novel, but it's not an easy read. I was worried for a while that the mom was too passive, but it totally paid off. It's not dealing with easy issues and it doesn't try to sugarcoat anything. It is exceptionally well written.

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cdreincarnate
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I was waiting for this to happen. If she had continued being so passive without this payoff, I would have been seriously pissed.

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cdreincarnate
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I hate it when books deliberately leave out quotation marks. Come on, guys, they were invented for a reason.😒

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Peddler410
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Finally reading this ... Litsy just told me I bought this nine months ago 😳
Started reading while my daughter played in the water.

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bookishkai
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I'm not crying, you're crying. Ugh, I was NOT expecting this book to completely ruin me, but oh my god. There was the sweet love story, but then there's drama and angst. And even in the sweet romance bits there was a sense of foreboding. SO good!

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bookishkai
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Up next. I tend to read from my iBooks shelves first, but wow I have so many unread things in my nook and kindle apps, I'm going to make a concerted effort to read from those first for a little while. I picked this up on sale from Amazon.

OneLitChick Love the cover! 8y
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Missusb
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Also I reviewed this at an Australian review site for children's and YA books. It is a tough read. http://readingtime.com.au/it-looks-like-this/ (thought I had already added this text).

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Missusb
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MoniqueChristine
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Mehso-so

It Looks Like This suffers from an impersonal, distant narrator and a rather generic plot. It had a lot of potential but never quite met my expectations. It was okay. But I had hoped for something a bit more engrossing.

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Missusb
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I have heard this is quite sad, so I will build up to it.

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LydiaMelby
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A great crowd for Rafi Mittlefehldt reading from his devastating coming of age novel, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS.

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Peddler410
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Another purchase this weekend. I'm trying to broaden my knowledge in the lgbtq world of literature. Our middle schoolers need more. This one might be more high school, but I'm hoping to find more to add to my school library.

MrBook 😊👍🏻 8y
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thatbookboi
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Bailedbailed

I really wanted to like it but I couldn't get past the writing style. It was to much like this. It was weird. So I said, it's time to move on.

RobinHoodReads I was gonna pick this up but I think I'll get it from the library now that you say that. 8y
thatbookboi @Prince_Of_Thieves yeah definitely just borrow it! I'm glad I did 8y
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thatbookboi
It Looks Like This | Rafi Mittlefehldt
Bailedbailed

I really wanted to like it but I couldn't get past the writing style. It was to much like this. It was weird. So I said, it's time to move on.

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thatbookboi
It Looks Like This | Rafi Mittlefehldt
Bailedbailed

I really wanted to like it but I couldn't get past the writing style. It was to much like this. It was weird. So I said, it's time to move on.

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libraryfangirly
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Went into the store to replace my rainbow socks, left with all the makings of a Captain Queer Halloween costume. Apparently I was subconsciously inspired by my lgbtqia read. #pride #lgbtq #lgbtqia #youngsdult #yabooks

BookBabe Awesome! 😁🏳️‍🌈 8y
CherylRainfield LOVE so much!! 8y
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libraryfangirly @CherylRainfield OMG I just squeed when I saw your comment and frightened my partner a bit. I just wanna tell you that Scars is on permanent display in my YA section. Excellent storytelling! 8y
CherylRainfield (Laughing) I'm glad you liked that I commented. Hope your partner got over the fright. And that is SO lovely to hear that SCARS is on your permanent display in your YA section! (Beaming) Thank you so much! (Hugging you) 8y
CherylRainfield I've only just discovered Litsy; it's great! 8y
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libraryfangirly
It Looks Like This | Rafi Mittlefehldt
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We have a give and take relationship. She eats us out of house and home but lets me use her as book stand. It works out. #bassethound #books #bookstagram #booklr #reading #pet #petlife #dog #doglife #hound #naptime

Bookworm83 Bassets are the best! 8y
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libraryfangirly
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Feeling like a queer read goes perfectly with my frozen cotton candy grapes. Now, which one? #bookstagram #books #reading #booklr #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtq #diversebooks #diversityinya #youngadult #yabooks

Bibliogeekery Amazing! #queerbooks (I add this hashtag to posts about queer books so I can find them later when making suggestions for my queer book club or just picking my next read) 8y
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ReadingRants
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Everyone who works with teens should read this book. At Reading Rants: http://www.readingrants.org/2016/08/23/it-looks-like-this-by-rafi-mittlefehldt/

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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This was so much better than I expected. Heartbreaking. Full of deep emotions. Some people are complaining about his lack of quotation marks, but I found the stylization charming and fitting. It somehow set a very particular tone that I think was necessary. I read it in about 24 hours. I couldn't really put it down unless I was at work. And even then, I might have gone through 100 pages or so there...

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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The heat rises from the asphalt as we walk back to the car, making everything shimmer, the fire from below coming to get me, trying to break out of the earth and reach me, grab me, pull me down, claim me.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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I know it's Lake Michigan, that's what Daddy says, but we're not in Michigan so I don't get why it's not Lake Wisconsin.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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He says, It's not a guarantee. It's just statistically proven that homosexuals are more likely to contract HIV.

Liz says, Yeah, more likely. Isn't it also more likely for black people to have AIDS than whites? Should black people stop trying to be black, then?

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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... and there's nothing to do and I love it.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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I squint but I don't really have to, it's not that bright anymore but everything's still screaming colors, pink and orange and yellow.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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There's another pause and for just a second I know I can make this pause go on forever if I want.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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But overhead it's deep, deep gray and the sky looks so angry, and I can already smell the dust that gets disturbed and blown around when it rains.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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Ronald turns back in the direction she went and shakes his head, slowly. He says, Man, she was smoking.

I look over. In the distance I can see her sit down at one of the big groups of two tables pushed together.

I say, She had a lot of makeup on.

Ronald says, Yeah, that's what smoking is.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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I miss Wisconsin.

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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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Received this for free as part of an early reviewers program. Quite excited to get started.

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marineko
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I had guessed before starting this book that it would be yet another one where Tragic Things Happen to Queer Teens - long sigh - but you know what? It's also well-written, and the reality it depicts is still very true for many, so I can't say it isn't needed.

#marinekolibrary #youngadult #queerlit

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