While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

I made a pie that was good.

All right, let's talk about pies.

I made my own crust. In defiance of everything that anyone has ever told me about crust,

I made my own pie crust. It was the first time I'd ever made it and I was like,

oh yeah, this will be easier than literally everyone ever has told me that it is.

That's true. Welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.

My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. And Andrew just made his first pie crust recently.

Anyway, okay. Yeah. What was the recipe? It was pumpkin. What was the...

Puy. Was it a pumpkin pie crust or was it just a pie crust? No, it was just a pie crust.

Okay. Like most pies I think use the same crust. So this recipe said you could put in sugar for

sweet recipes and leave it out for savory recipes. Interesiting. Yeah, I know, right?

All kinds of pies in this wide world of ours. The secret apparently is sour cream.

And I don't know why that's the secret. But first you mush together like two sticks of butter and

some flour. Yeah. And then you add sugar and salt and sour cream. Sour cream. I didn't...

I don't know that I knew about sour cream. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know enough about

the physics of pie crust to know what it's doing, but it turned out. It's probably a taste and

consistency thing. Yeah. Yeah. When we stopped talking about the pies we've been meaning to eat

and talk about the books that we've been meaning to read. Oh, well, look at you. Look at me. I'm

Dr. Segway. Before we get into the book you read this week, which was what, Andrew? It was The

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