Des Lewis will be 77 years old on 18 January 2025
Those who have read these episodic brainstorming reviews of mine must know they are very personal — rough-shod and spontaneous. Synchronicity and anagram mixed. I know they are not professional, never potentially publishable other than in the madness of my head, but I do hope they show grains of dark truth and cosmic panache.
These Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews were founded in 2008.
‘What’s the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I’ll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Elbow.’ — THE SINGING DETECTIVE
“How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?” — Walter de la Mare
To any current genre author I have reviewed before — if you have a new story recently published or soon to be published in a collection or anthology, you may have a review by me of the story that also showcases where it is published. See HERE. (This is because I am no longer well enough to review as many books as I once did.)
Fresh Fictions, free to read HERE.
No AI input in preparation of my texts whatsoever.
THE NEW NONSCENIC
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The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
I shall not be able itemise the plot as I read it, in due consideration to my ailing health and for fear of any plot spoilers that my normal type of gestalt real-time reviewing might have created! It’s that sort of book, I expect.
It seems to me to be a foregone conclusion that this will be a successful novel. Its enticing plot summary for those about to buy it is readily available where it is sold. I am showcasing the book here on my website for the old times’ sake of having previously real-time reviewed quite a bit of this author’s past fiction work in detail, including his early novel of 1999, and the indie press publications that have carried his work, among others. Link above.
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“His elbow knocks it from her hand and the hot coffee drops into his lap.”
The best elbow trigger of all times, from which much seems about to stem! Very satisfying to me, and for my previous research into such things, to see an elbow triggering a whole novel from outset.
I am eager to read the rest of it. But I shall read it privately till I finish it and if necessary give further thoughts on it below.. Maybe quite a while till then, maybe not!