Your Words Against Mine

Your hosts are still recuperating from last week's shop-a-thon, so enjoy this low-key episode about Covid, roof maintenance, vet visits, and the quirks and issues with southern romantic fiction.

On a long anticipated episode, Thomas and Elizabeth hit the road to Atlanta for an all-out book shop-a-thon. Join your hosts as they struggle to beat the heat, grapple with world-class arthouse cinem…

Elizabeth & Thomas hit the hard streets of Clawville in this episode's visual novel-based reading challenge. There's also talk of phones, cats, moms, and some big plans for the near future!

After cabin retreats, bird attacks, and some good old fashioned spring cleaning, we return with a new episode discussing Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. This tees us up surprisingly well for further dis…

Summer may be a ways off yet, but we're in the road-trip spirit on YWAM this week, discussing Amor Towles latest novel as well as television adaptations, engrossing puzzle games, and more!

This week we're discussing Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko's 2014 short-story collection. Rounding things out is a healthy side of video game talk and musings about the declining relevance of an Osc…

Our hosts reminisce on their school days while discussing Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed historical fiction series. There's also romantic space dragons, because come on, you know what show this is by no…

While big game launches loom over more mundane affairs, there's still the great new work from acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead to keep our heads in the page, not to mention sprawling sci-fi romanc…

This week we jack into the metaverse for a discussion of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Other books discussed include Kira Jane Buxton's Feral Creatures and the Maze of Shadows series by Kathryn Ann K…

As the winds of winter abate, your hosts take a dive into virtual reality fiction with Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller's young adult sci-fi novel. There's also some health updates and a fearsome serial …

Winter is finally rearing its head in the south, as talk turns to romantic ice giants and videogame journalism. Plus, with a new year comes new numbers, as Elizabeth and Thomas start to compare their…

May old word totals be forgot? NOT SO FAST! A new season of YWAM brings a mysterious new abbreviation with which to contend. There's plenty to deal with before we get to that, however, including some…

This final episode of season 1 is all about looking forward... to the start of season 2, where we'll look back on the last season in its entirety. Speaking of looking back, a surprise trip down books…

The holiday season is in full swing with the end of another year, and our first reading contest, just around the corner. For as locked in as things may seem, surprises still lay in wait, along with d…

A new addition to the family makes for an extra thankful (and extra late) episode, one where we dive into award winning children's books & fantastical romance stories. With the issuing of the final r…

With all the sports hubbub going on, I'm amazed we got this episode out at all. As the end of the year looms, your hosts discuss the ways that we engage with the works of problematic artists. (trigge…

A positively "dreadful" episode... but like in a good way? Okay, so it's not an especially fitting episode for Halloween, but rather one where we talk about Metroid, sports, and high school romance (…

With the Halloween season upon us, Elizabeth recounts her horror-themed reading challenge all while dealing with a terrifying home invasion. There's also a lot of Kingdom Hearts / SSBU talk, which, w…

While the battle of word totals is all but over, the war against the whims of fate and alien hoards is only beginning! This week we discuss Xiran Jay Zhao's debut novel, a series of Scottish romances…

From 9/11 to violent bike gangs and underworlds both mythic and alien, we tread around some dark subject matter this week. To that end, rest assured there's pontificating on diet sodas & console loya…