Listen in and nerd out! Lots of fun chatting about words and wonderful books 🙂📚
04.12.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@marthabarnette.bsky.social
Co-host, “A Way with Words” public radio show USA TODAY bestselling author, FRIENDS WITH WORDS: ADVENTURES IN LANGUAGELAND marthabarnette.com #etymology #writing #books #words @wayword
Listen in and nerd out! Lots of fun chatting about words and wonderful books 🙂📚
04.12.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great time sharing the joy of language with Arik and his listeners!
03.12.2025 19:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fun chat about memoir and hypnagogic inspiration with @saribotton.bsky.social (“Hypnagogic”? Hint: It’s a great excuse for a nap! 😁)
#memoir #writersofbluesky #amwriting #readinglist #bookchat
As you should! 👊🏼
26.11.2025 04:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow. Devastating. Thank you so much for posting.
22.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Huge congratulations!!!
12.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tune in our show this weekend for a first mention of Second Mentions! 😉
12.11.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks! I’m as surprised as anyone, but will take it. :)
11.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Cover of Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland by Martha Barnette, plus the USA TODAY Best-Selling Booklist badge
Well, THAT’s a nice little bit of good news amid all the other mishegoss! Friends with Words made USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Booklist last week. Huzzah!
11.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0OMG! This is awful!
11.11.2025 02:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hard agree about the Southern Fest! Had a wonderful time at my sesh with Stefan Fatsis and Z Z Packer, and loved being able to stroll over to the No Kings march, too.
10.11.2025 20:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OMG, I would totally watch that trivia night! What a show!
04.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dang! Why am I out of town??
31.10.2025 05:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Taking my own damn escalator ride! See y’all tonight in Lexington!
30.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Word Nerdery alert: Come peep us at the South Burlington Library in VT tonight!
28.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Koax, koax!!!
19.10.2025 02:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agreed!
14.10.2025 23:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hey, book lovers in the South! I’ll be there this weekend, in conversation with @stefanfatsis.bsky.social to talk about his new book and mine. Join us! #friendswithwords 📚
13.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Louavull
08.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agree! Also cool to boldly split infinitives. These “rules” are attempts by 17th & 18th c. self-appointed grammarians to fit the swollen feet of English into the tight shoes of Latin syntax.
07.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0My progressive Southern Baptist minister (yes, there are still some out there!) dad would have LOVED this book! Thank you!
28.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gray tabby kitten with arm extended
… And them’s mah beans!
27.09.2025 19:12 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, Mignon!
27.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I somehow missed “groksucker” until just now.
25.09.2025 18:07 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Looking forward to chatting with Spain’s largest English speaking talk radio station shortly!
22.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My book makes this Arkansas library’s “Most Requested” list. Yay #libraries and #books! 📚👓
19.09.2025 20:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Super-fun interview on WORT-FM about my mom, playing the Pink Panther theme, how Ritalin was named, and my upcoming appearance in Madison, Wisconsin, on Oct. 26! www.wortfm.org/martha-barne...
16.09.2025 17:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0