Ep 689 - In the Midst of Winter, by Isabel Allende
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This book's heavier social commentary is... leavened? Heightened? By being juxtaposed with some borderline-goofy corpse-hiding heist stuff. We think it works! Not all reviewers of the book agree.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale, |
| 0:11.2 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.2 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:42.6 | Music These are books you should have read by now. Hey everybody, welcome to Overdo. |
| 0:46.1 | It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:47.4 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:49.4 | My name is Andrew. |
| 0:51.4 | Go birds. |
| 0:52.6 | Go birds. |
| 0:55.3 | I hope it went good. |
| 0:58.8 | We're recording this on Saturday so that we can watch the big game on Sunday. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm sure that our boys are going to leave it all in the field one way or the other. |
| 1:06.2 | Yes. |
| 1:08.8 | But I hope it's like good, but I hope it's good. |
| 1:09.8 | I hope it's good. I hope it's good. |
| 1:10.8 | It has just been and I know |
| 1:12.7 | what we'll talk about the books you've been meaning to read each week. One of us reads a book, |
| 1:18.0 | tells the other person about it. Andrew wrote a book. Did you read for this week? I read in the |
| 1:22.0 | midst of winter by Isabella Allende, much like we are right now, the book. |
| 1:29.6 | The book this week is in the midst of winter. Well, that's, you know, and sometimes in the midst of winter, you find yourself living and dying by the fortunes of your chosen sports team. |
| 1:38.4 | I'm just saying America. |
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