Castle of Wizardry, Chapter 1
Garion’s tripping on memories being recalled by the Orb, as the company flies down through the caves beneath Rak Cthol inside the earthquake triggered by Ctuchik’s utter destruction. He’s the one witness who truly understands the struggle of faith Relg goes through in h…
Belgariad & Beyond
by Sondra Turnbull & Alysia Seymour
Exploring magical reality through fiction, chapter by chapter, beginning with The Belgariad books. It is impossible for us to stay on the surface, so expect a deep dive into the juicy stuff of our lives! Read along with us, spoiler free, as Alysia discovers the stories for the first time, and Sondra, a twenty-year veteran of the tales, enjoys the ride. This is an intimate discussion, which delves into the hosts' personal lives. Since one's a holistic therapist, and they're both authors, the talk goes to unexpected places. Join the conversation at Patreon.com/belgariadandbeyond
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Castle of Wizardry, Prologue
Garion’s family history with lots of story Easter eggs about the Rivan blood line’s relationship with the orb, Tolnedrans, and Nyissans.
Sondra has realised, as she pens the series of introductory emails for new GKU subscribers, that she should probably take a sec to cel…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 27
Garion follows Wolf through the strange and horrible rooms of Ctuchik’s tower as the orb song swells in his body and mind. His grandfather does battle with the evil magician until Ctuchik destroys himself, the aftermath of which cracks the city apart around them. In the…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 26
Garion is in the thrall of some intense emotions: fear saturated slave pens, Brill’s surprise ambush and Silk’s bout of hand-to-hand combat with the assassin, anger at the horror of worship in the temple of Torak, and the subsequent draining of his will to destroy it al…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 25
Garion follows Relg into the darkness of the caves beneath Rak Cthol, climbing up sheer rock for hours to reach the slave pens. He gives Taiba the escaped and dying Marag slave his cloak, and finds out Ctuchic killed her two baby girls, sacrificing them on the altar to …
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 24
Garion helps Aunt Pol shield the group from grolim mind-searching and is an accidental partner in the madding of a grolim’s mind when his aunt attacks.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
Entering the Castle: Finding the inner path to God and your soul’s pur…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 23
Garion swims through black sand with sea monsters in the freezing wasteland of an empty sea, while Silk turns inside out in the aftermath of his internal rockslide. There’s a bit of swordplay, axeplay, and rockplay before the company sets course over shaking ground towa…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 22
Garion slides back down into the gully with Barak with the news of Silk’s capture. He waits around with everyone else for hours in the dark, spiralling down internally into guilt and grief, remembering Lelldorin for the first time in ages, while Relg prays his way throu…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 21
Garion meets Silk’s Nadrak “friend” Yarblek and is amazed by the way Aunt Pol behaves when Yarblek asks to buy her. Relg gets a cold and thinks he’s dying. Silk freaks out and flees when he hears the King of the Murgos is on his way. But, too late! Brill has finally cap…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 20
Garion has become Relg’s confessor—the Ulgo is having a tough time of it this week. Our teenage hero is witness to the horror of a Thull hurling himself from the top of the Eastern Escarpment, but the horror turns to sickness when he hears Silk explain why The Thull had…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 19
Breaking the Spell, Religion as a natural phenomenon, Daniel C. Dennett
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 18
Relg gets very cooperative, Ce’Nedra is told she has to stay behind, and Garion gets kissed again (and is still clueless about why). The gang makes a plan to sneak into Cthol Murgos.
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 17
Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
The House With a Clock in its Walls, John Bellairs
A Special Relationship, Douglas Kennedy
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 16
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Twenty-seven Bones, Jonathan Nasaw
The Fire Starter Sessions, Danielle LaPorte
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 15
London Observed, Doris Lessing
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 14
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 13
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 12
Garion gets a lesson in the balance of universal forces after feeling foolish for flubbing his first act of deliberate magic. The shifted perspective of birds sings him out of his funk though, right before he meets his grandfather’s brother sorcerers and expands his cur…
Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 11
A Home at the End of the World, by Michael Cunningham
New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
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Magician’s Gambit, Chapter 10
A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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