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Sung Ju Ahn 안성주

@sungjuahn.bsky.social

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writer * teacher *mother * immigrant friend of democracy enemy of kakistocracy lover of the American Dream, living somewhere between the dream and the nightmare

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Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 9h

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction ⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 250 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚 #BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity #FolkLore #NorthKorea #Shaman #Exile #Myth #Resilience #London #Korea 202/250

Book cover of "Princess Bari" by Hwang Sok-Yong.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction ⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 250 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚 #BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity #Libya #Father #Son #MiddleEast #Gadaffi #Family #Home #Love #Exile 201/250

Book cover of "The Return" by Hisham Matar.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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 #SelfRealization #Myth #Dreams #Aware #Self #Ego #Human #Unconscious 200/200

Book cover of "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" by C.G. Jung.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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 #EnglishTranslation #God #Catholic #Tolkien #Stories #EduSky #Modern 199/200

Book cover of "The Jerusalem Bible."

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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 #Scotland #Edinburgh #EduSky #Manipulator #Narcissist #Fascism #Youth 198/200

Book cover of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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 #FairyTales #Freud #Psychology #Plagiarism #Psychoanalysis #Children 197/200

Book cover of "The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales" by Bruno Bettelheim.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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 #Australia #Romance #LoveStory #Outback #Priest #Myth #Sacrifice 196/200

Book cover of "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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 #Korea #History #Japan #FamilySaga #Joseon #Seoul #Tokyo #Manchuria 195/200

Book cover of "Land" by Pak Kyung-Ni, Translated by Agnita Tennant.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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 #Dracula #Horror #Fantasy #Lore #Vlad #ClassicLit #Gothic #History 194/200

Book cover of "Dracula" by Bram Stoker.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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 #SexSlave #ComfortWomen #Korea #Japan #WWII #WorldWar2 #Rape #Trauma 193/200

Book cover of "Silence Broken" by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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 #LA #WritersLife #Biracial #AcademicSky #Hollywood #Satire #Race 192/200

Book cover of "Colored Television" by Danzy Senna.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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 #America #Nigeria #LoveStory #9/11 #Dictatorship #Immigrant #Race 191/200

Book cover of "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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 #Aristocracy #War #Addiction #Industrialization #Snakes 190/200

Book cover of "The Setting Sun" by Osamu Dazai.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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 #Korea #Japan #Colonialism #History #Anthropology #FolkArt #Media 189/200

Book cover of "Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze 1910-1945" by E. Taylor Atkins.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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 #America #Iowa #Shakespeare #Image #Gender #Intergenerational 188/200

Book cover of "A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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 #England #Satire #Autobiographical #Disillusion #EnglishGothic 187/200

Book cover of "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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 #Spain #Satire #Chivalry #Knight #Romance #Illusion #Reality 186/200

Book cover of "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

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 #Korea #Japan #Women #Gender #Medicine #Nursing #Midwifery 185/200

Book cover of "Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea" by Sonja M. Kim

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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 #Japan #War #Military #China #General #Dictator #Empire #Crime 184/200

Book cover of "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Controversial World War II General" by Peter Mauch.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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 #America #Ghost #Reconstruction #Slavery #Murder #Baby #Daughter 183/200

Book cover of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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 #America #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #Ojibwe #Family #Identity #Myth 182/200

Book cover of "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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 #America #Puritan #Massachusetts #Sin #Guilt #Hypocrisy #Morality 181/200

Book cover of "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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 #America #Frontier #TexasRangers #Texas #Epic #Montana #Western 180/200

Book cover of "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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 #MilitaryPolice #SecretPolice #Fascism #Spy #Japan #Korea #China 179/200 💡📚

Book cover of "Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police" by Raymond Lamont-Brown.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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 #Obama #Father #Race #Chicago #Harvard #Biracial #AmericanDream 178/200 💡📚

Book cover of "Dreams from my Father" by Barack Obama.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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 #Realpolitik #Machiavellian #Politics #Philosophy #Power #Italy 177/200 💡📚

Book cover of "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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 #TrueCrime #Murder #AmericanDream #Research #Violence #Rural 176/200 💡📚

Book cover of "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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 #LoveStory #Tragedy #Westernization #Karma #Reincarnation 175/200

Book cover of "Spring Snow" by Yukio Mishima.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Rest in peace dearest Marjane (1969-2026).

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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 #Korea #Japan #Colonialism #Imperialism #Segregation #Prejudice 174/200 💡📚

Book cover of "Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea 1910-1945" by Mark E. Caprio.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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 #Immigrant #Friendship #Family #London #WWII #British #Commonwealth 173/200

Book cover of "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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 #Art #Images #Human #Pictures #Persuasion #Storytelling #Death 172/200 💡📚

Book cover of "How Art Made the World" by Nigel Spivey.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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 #Korea #FolkArt #MaterialCulture #DomesticArts #Craft #Artisan 171/200

Book cover of "The Collection of the National Folk Museum of Korea."

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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 I've been waiting and it has arrived in the Pope's message. 170/200

Book cover of "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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 #TeenAngst #ComingofAge #FirstPerson #NewYork #Phony #JDSalinger 169/200

Book cover of "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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 #Indigenous #Colonialism #Dreamers #Micronesia #Immortality #Abuse 168/200 🪐📚

Book cover of "The People in the Trees" by Hanya Yanagihara.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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 #FairyTale #Cinderella #Maid #Princess #Gender #Magic #PrinceCharming 167/200

Book cover of "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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 #Women #Modern #Feminist #TradWife #Korea #Japan #Colonialism #Change 166/200

Book cover of "The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910-1945" by Theodore Jun Yoo.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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 #Fairytale #Imprison #Liberty #Witch #Love #ChildrensLit #Hair 165/200

Book cover of "Rapunzel" by Paul O. Zelinsky (via Brothers Grimm).

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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 #Capitalism #Colonialism #Industrialization #Korea #Japan 164/200 💡📚

Book cover of "Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism" by Carter J. Eckert.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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 #Myth #JosephCampbell #Storyteller #Love #Bliss #Sacrifice #PBS 163/200 💡📚

Book cover of "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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 #OscarWilde #Gothic #Horror #Beauty #Youth #PlasticSurgery #Morality 162/200

Book cover of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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 #DevilWearsPrada #Fashion #ChickLit #Vogue #AnnaWintour #Premiere 161/200

Book cover of "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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 #FScottFitzgerald #Hollywood #MGM #AmericanDream #Unfinished #Love 160/200

Book cover of "The Last Tycoon" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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 #FrenchIndoChina #Autofiction #Love #Lust #Memory #Race #Money 159/200

Book cover of "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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 #Frankenstein #Gothic #Romantic #ScienceFiction #Occult #Horror 158/200

Book cover of "Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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 #American #Sisters #CivilWar #ComingofAge #Childhood #Womanhood 157/200

Book cover of "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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 #Korea #Seoul #Mother #Sacrifice #Family #Love #Guilt #Regret #Desire 156/200

Book cover of "Please Look After Mom" by Kyung-Sook Shin.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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 #Korea #Colonialism #Japan #Modernity #Nationalism #Feminism 155/200

Book cover of "Colonial Modernity in Korea" by Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson.

Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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 #Gothic #Suspense #Thriller #Psychological #Memory #Identity 154/200 ⚡️📚

Book cover of "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier.