Your Words Against Mine

As seasonal illness continues to weigh on our competitors, we look to nature for answers in this week's reading challenge, Hope Jahren's vibrant autobiography 'Lab Girl.'

This week, YWAM is tackling The Cabin at the End of the World, the basis for the new M Night Shyamalan film! You'll also hear about our recent trip to Columbia, and thrill to a surprising upset in th…

The first reading challenge of 2023 takes us through Sylvain Neuvel's The Themis Files, a sci-fi series whose iron giants are anything but gentle. Before that, we share our pursuits of various accred…

The race for wordcount is officially underway in 2023! Elizabeth is back from the Kindle Unlimited mines with a fresh crop of romance series, and Thomas has his first reading challenge of the year to…

The curtain closes on another season of Your Words Against Mine. Elizabeth and Thomas recall their favorite reads of 2022, share holiday stories, and finally reveal whose wordcount came out on top. F…

A Merry Christmas and Happy Final episode of 2022! As our hosts prepare for next year's big new framing device, visions of cataloguing software dancing in their heads, we'd like to take a moment to t…

With 2022 winding down, there has been a lot of house keeping to take care of. Nevertheless, if there's two things you can always count on, it's reading and podcasting (way better than those other tw…

Happy Thanksgiving from Your Words Against Mine. This year, we're grateful to be recording in the same room again, and to both be on the exact same page when it comes to the latest reading challenge.

The end is in sight for this season of YWAM, but your hosts still have a lot of reading to go if they want to meet their goals. Life, as it will, throws some curveballs into the mix, but we're back a…

Plans for the week ahead lead off a relatively laid back episode, where we discuss Edward Ashton's thrilling and existential sci-fi adventure.

Fresh off a long overdue vacation, Elizabeth & Thomas get into a reasonably (and necessarily) spoiler-lite discussion of Jessica Knoll's bestseller and its recent Netflix adaptation.

Nabakov's beguiling and audacious 1962 novel makes for a surprisingly complementary topic to accompany an extended discussion of social media trends and celebrity drama. Add to that an impending stor…

Whatever the multiple technical difficulties and interruptions would have you to believe, this episode was produced entirely sober. You might need something to take the edge off all the talk of tikto…

YWAM looks to the future with travel plans, career moves, and reading challenges. Right now, though, the question remains: how haunted is too haunted for a haunted house story?

The world does not stop for podcasting, as this week's discussion of non-reading events makes clear. With a potential spin-off podcast in the works, where will we find the time for reading at all? Bu…

A highly, HIGHLY contentious episode of YWAM sees our hosts nearly coming to blows and having to walk back some truly hurtful claims. Granted, drama is pretty relative, so take all that with a grain …

Fanfiction and manga are back with a vengeance in this dual reading challenge episode! A decidedly modern take on the Harry Potter universe is paired with a world literally overrun by demons. Nothing…

This 4th of July, Tamsyn Muir's deliciously dark work of fantasy sci-fi has got your hosts seeing fireworks! With half the year left ahead of us, the show still has a long way to go, both in ambition…

Season Two hits the halfway mark with this discussion of Aiden Thomas' coming-of-age (& undeath) tale, along with some talk about baseball, Top Gun, manga, and more!

With Summer break under way, this year's reading competition just will not stop piling on the surprises. Join your hosts for a discussion of a classic of Colombian literature, some good old-fashioned…