Sung Ju Ahn 안성주

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주

@sungjuahn.bsky.social

writer, teacher, mother, immigrant, friend of democracy, and a lover of america

3,102 Followers 210 Following 798 Posts Joined Jan 2024
11 hours ago
Book cover of "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#WW2 #War #Refugee #Occupation #France #Paris #LoveStory

130/200

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1 day ago
Book cover of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Moshin Hamid.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Metafiction #Pakistan #UnreliableNarrator #AmericanNightmare

129/200

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2 days ago
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Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Strindberg #Drama #BattleoftheSexes #Darwinism #Theater #ClassWar

128/200

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3 days ago
Book cover of "Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine" by Roy Porter.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Medical #Surgery #Doctor #Disease #Hospital #HumanBody #Science

127/200 💡📚

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4 days ago

Thank you for your encouraging message!

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4 days ago
Book cover of Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Eurasia #NorthAfrica #Interdisciplinary #Society #Evolution

126/200 💡📚

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6 days ago
Book cover of "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" by Chris Hedges.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity #Readers
#War #Lies #Myth #Death #Destruction #Addiction #Media

125/200 💡📚

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1 week ago
Book cover of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner."

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity #Readers
#War #MiddleEast #KhaledHosseini #Afghanistan #Rape #Friend

124/200

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1 week ago
Book covers of Herman Wouk's "The Winds of War" and " War and Remembrance."

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#War #HermanWouk #WW2 #History #FamilySaga #PearlHarbor #Nazi

122&123/200

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1 week ago
Book cover of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#GabrielGarciaMarquez #MagicalRealism #Family #NobelPrize #Epic

121/200

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2 weeks ago
1st Edition book cover of J.R.R.Tolkein's "The Hobbit."

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Tolkein #Fantasy #ChildrensBooks #Hobbit #MiddleEarth #Gandalf

120/200 🪐📚

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2 weeks ago
Book cover of "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945" by John Toland.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Japan #EmpireofJapan #History #WorldWarII #WWII #PulitzerPrize

119/200 💡📚

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2 weeks ago
Book cover of "Hidden Horrors" by Yuki Tanaka.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Japan #WarCrimes #ComfortWomen #SexSlaves #WorldWarII #Unit731

118/200 💡📚

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2 weeks ago

People who idealize are sometimes the quickest to condemn.

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2 weeks ago
Book cover of "The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#SarahWaters #GhostStory #PostWarBritain #Warwickshire #Evil

117/200 🩸📚

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1 month ago
Book cover of "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#GabrielGarciaMarquez #LoveStory #Aging #Death #Time #MagicalRealism

116/200

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1 month ago

This is one of my faves! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

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1 month ago
Book cover of "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#CharlesDickens #DavidCopperfield #VictorianEngland #ComingofAge

115/200

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1 month ago
Book cover of "Howard's End" by E.M. Forster

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#EMForster #Edwardian #England #NewWoman #Suffragette #Capitalist

114/200

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1 month ago
Book cover of "Just Kids" by Patti Smith.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#PattiSmith #RobertMapplethorpe #Friends #NYC #Art #Music #Love

113/200 💡📚

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1 month ago
Book cover of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#SnowWhite #ChildrensLiterature #Fairytale #Fantasy #Romance

112/200 🪐📚

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1 month ago
Book cover of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#MalcolmX #AlexHaley #AmericanNightmare #BlackSky #Empowerment

111/200 💡📚

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1 month ago
Book cover of "The Necklace and Other Tales" by Guy de Maupassant.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#GuydeMaupassant #Shortstory #Paris #TwistEnding #Literature

110/200 🖋️📚

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1 month ago
Book cover of "Jung and Tarot: An Achetypal Journey" by Sallie Nichols.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Jung #Tarot #Fool #FoolsJourney #MajorArcana #Psychology

109/200 💡📚

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1 month ago
Book cover of "Midwives" by Chris Bohjalian.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story.

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#midwife #birth #homebirth #manslaughter @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social

108/200 ⚡️📚

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2 months ago
Book cover of "Yellowface" by R. F. Kuang.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Yellowface #Publishing #CulturalAppropriation #SocialMedia #RFKuang

107/200

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2 months ago
Book cover of "Butter' by Asako Yuzuki.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#AzakoYuzuki #Japan #Feminist #Fat #SerialKiller #Murder #Journalist

106/200

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2 months ago
Book cover of "Yakuza Diary" by Christopher Seymour.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#Yakuza #Japan #Crime #Gangster #Underworld #Tokyo #Gang #ShadowWorld

105/200💡📚

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2 months ago
Book cover of "The wives of Henry VIII" by Antonia Fraser.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#AntoniaFraser #England #EnglishHistory #Tudor #HenryVIII #AnneBoleyn

104/200💡📚

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2 months ago
Book cover of "infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story 🖋️📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity
#AyaanHirsiAli #Trauma #Sexism #Feminism #HumanRights #PoliticalAsylum

103/200💡📚

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