Your Words Against Mine
A competitive reading podcast between two siblings. Over the course of 2023, Thomas Dempsey and Elizabeth Conner will assign each other various reading challenges, all the while vying to see who can read the most words overall.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 78
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
What's the Score on Season Four? (S4E1 - 1/1/24)
May old podcast formats be forgot! We're back after a brief hiatus with a new vision for YWAM going forward. We hope you'll enjoy this return to our roots as much as we enjoyed recording it. As alway…
Short Stories, Short Podcast (S3E23 - 11/12/23)
Life, uhhh... finds a way... to delay our recording this podcast. We're back now, however briefly, to discuss Samanta Schweblin's NBA winning short story collection Seven Empty Houses, as well as lay…
On Plagues Past (S3E22 - 10/28/23)
This week's episode concerns discussions of mass illness; if that sounds too heavy, just be glad we didn't go with our first plan. Join us as we go over Veronique Tadjo's In the Company of Men, as we…
The Season of the Witch (S3E21 - 10/10/23)
Cooler weather, a new job, and a school year in full swing shouldn't cause us to lose sight of the spookiness of the Halloween season! We got a bit more of that than we bargained for with this week's…
Rhymes with "Poofy" (S3E20 - 9/26/23)
Read up, me hearties! This week we're going in depth on Eiichiro Oda's pirate adventure phenomenon One Piece. And yes, one of your hosts has a new job, but he just wants you to know that he still lov…
Over Stuffed (S3E19 - 9/11/23)
There's plenty of stuff going on in your hosts lives right now, not to mention our scheduled discussion of Shruti Swamy's acclaimed short story collection 'A House is a Body.' Any of that would have …
A World without Books (S3E18 - 8/31/23) [fixed]
As hurricane winds assail the southeast, Elizabeth and Thomas have shouldered once again through illness and technical difficulties to bring you a discussion of Miya Kazuki's hit light novel, Ascenda…
A Scandinavious Episode (S3E17 - 8/15/23) [fixed]
YWAM heads to Sweden for a discussion of Let the Right One In, John Lindqvist's hit vampire novel and film. We too will be staying out of the sunlight during this oppressive heat-wave, opting instead…
Woolfing Down Some Serial (S3E16 - 7/31/23)
Work is rearing it's head back into the lives of your hosts, with a return of students for one and some interesting prospects for the other. Meanwhile, on the reading front, Virginia Woolf's modernis…
To Be Continued... (S3E15 - 7/18/23)
Carl (S3E14 - 7/4/23)
Summering at 'Wolf Hall' (S3E13 - 6/21/23)
Quit Your Podcast! (S3E12 - 6/6/23)
This is How You Lose the Reading Contest (S3E11 - 5/23/23)
I Can't Get No Adaptation (S3E10 - 5/8/23)
"No Self-Editing Here!" (S3E9 - 4/24/23)
Banned Book Club (S3E8 - 4/9/23)
"When were Zeppelins a Thing?" (S3E7 - 3/27/23)
Bonus Episode - Rated N.C. 2023! (S3B1 - 3/23/23)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Never Dies (S3E6 - 3/14/23)
When it comes to interrupting our recording schedule, life - uh... finds a way. And speaking of movie references, the intervening weeks have afforded both your hosts rare opportunities to get back ou…