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used to be @ghostmums! quynh (rhymes with win) · 27 she/her 🇻🇳🏳️‍🌈 · fantasy, historical+sad girl lit fic, & love triangle trope enjoyer

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Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies
Every Villain is a Hero
Asian-inspired Fantasy
Supporting* Women's Wrongs
Dark Academia
Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
My Taste
Pachinko
Swordheart
The Book Thief
Immaculate Conception
White Oleander
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Simon Books giveaway

Livonia Chow Mein

Livonia Chow Mein

Abigail Savitch-Lew

In the vein of Happiness Falls and Family Lore, a gripping story of family history and political upheaval centered around a Chinese family-owned restaurant in Brownsville, Brooklyn and its impact on the neighborhood’s Jewish and Black residents over the course of a century. In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history. First is Koon Lai, an immigrant who runs a Chinese restaurant on Livonia Avenue; second, his son Richard, a man desperate for his own chance at the American Dream; and third, Jason, a poet who seeks his escape in the bohemian counterculture of the 1970s, but finds himself an unwitting participant in Brooklyn’s gentrification. In the 21st century, Jason’s daughter Sadie returns to Brownsville as a journalist, determined to unravel the mystery of what happened decades earlier on the night the buildings blazed. Joining together the present and the past is the community organizer Lina Rodriguez Armstrong, who was also displaced by that fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville’s residents and organizing a Livonia Avenue community land trust. A stunning debut from a new talent, Livonia Chow Mein contemplates how the American pursuit of freedom relies on a collective amnesia and challenges us to consider what it would take for us to truly live in harmony.

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    i keep calling it milk and eggs

    i loved all the lovers in the night, so i'm rly excited to start this, going in pretty much blind, i'm kinda scared tho since i've heard that the two parts are a little disconnected and one of them sorta falls flat

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    these chapters are getting ridiculously long, what do you mean chapter 15 is 58 pages???? (i'm on an e-reader, but still)

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    Thoughts from 73% (page 314)

    I laughed out loud when Rika was talking about her husband, perfectly describing a performative male:

    “he went around patting himself on the back, like he’s so much better than all those men. ‘I know the pain that women feel, I respect women. I’ve written papers about it, I know where all the landmines are. My favorite author is Virginia Woolf’ and all that… So fucking what, though, right? How many times did you clean the house last month? How many times did you cook? How many times did you go grocery shopping?” .

    What’s missing is a matcha in his hand.

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  • Book clubs!

    What are some online book club reccs? I am an introvert and I much prefer to meet and discuss books online! I am looking for bookclubs that either you all read the same book at different paces or where you kinda just come together to discuss the books you are reading. Also what do you look for in a book club? What do you like dislike about them? I love building up/being a part of a community with a shared interest. The con for me is that I can be a slow reader/mood reader so it can be hard to keep up with sometimes!!

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  • Have you ever switched formats on a DNF and ended up loving it?

    I’m thinking about resurrecting some DNFs ⚰️ but changing the format. For example I DNF’d the Song of Achilles audiobook 2 hrs in but am thinking to try the ebook instead now. Some of the books on my list are just so loved I wonder if they are worth another go. Has this method worked for anyone? 📚

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  • week refresh & summer goals 💐

    i took a few days off from my last read to give myself a mini break (❁´◡`❁) i'm riding off the last high of it trying to catch up with my reading journals & overall looking forward to summer !

    what are some reads y'all are ending off the month? fav reads of april? what reads are you planning to hit when summer rolls around?

    personally, here is my lil book list of reads I want to knock off during summer: ❀ Reread A Wolf in the Garden & Tame The Heart ❀ more of a mini Ava Hunter quest for me to finish the rest of Runaway Ranch & read Babymoon or Bust ! ❀ Cowboy Casual is another anticipated read of mine ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و i'm hoping to get around to it before or during my trip to Yellowstone

    happy reading & here's to wrapping up the last week of april 🎀

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  • Shout to the void (pt7)🪐

    Well well well… would you look at what time it is.. what’s a complaint (no matter how big, small, dramatic, silly, etc) that you have from the past week?! LET’S HEAR IT!

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  • RIP my streak

    I lost a 39 day streak because I am so deep in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream 😩 should I start a support group for others affected by this crisis?

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  • Streak Colour Appreciation

    I LOVE my streak colour today. I think they last for a week? So I get that amount of time to admire it. It’s this soft lavender and it’s definitely my favourite so far (for reference I’m at 124 days).

    What’s your colour right now? What has been your favourite(s)? Please share! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

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