Bob’s Place to Record my Reading Interests on Different Topics

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Rather than start a new thread, I'm gutting this one and starting over. This is going to be a place to record my reading interests and progress on different topics, such as:
-The Unread Group Books, message #2
-Read A Book For Every Year Since I Was Born, complete up to 2024, message #5
-Pulitzer Prize List, message #6
-Women author's I've read, message #9
-Women author's I've NOT read, with books I own, message #11
-Recommended women author's I've NOT read, with accompanying book recommendation, message #15
-Recommended women author's I've NOT read, with NO accompanying book, message #16

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My Unread Group Reads
I will only keep track of my unread books from the group shelf. I will record them by the year they won the poll.

As of 11/15/25
506 - 403 = 103 unread - 79.6%

Unread Books by Year
2010 Group Reads Unread: 0

2011 Group Reads Unread: 0

2012 Group Reads Unread: 4
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

2013 Group Reads Unread: 1
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

2014 Group Reads to Finish Year: 1
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

2015 Group Reads Unread: 3
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2016 Group Reads Unread: 5
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

2017 Group Reads Unread: 1
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

2018 Group Reads Unread: 6
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Giovanni's Room byJames Baldwin
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Light in August by William Faulkner
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

2019 Group Reads Unread: 5
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

2020 Group Reads Unread: 12
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other
Stories by Flannery O'Connor
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

2021 Group Reads Unread: 9
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Metamorphoses by Ovid

2022 Group Reads Unread: 14
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Sun Also Rises byErnest Hemingway
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Bostonians by Henry James
Flush by Virginia Woolf
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

2023 Group Reads Unread: 15
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and related Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Children of the Corn by Stephen King
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Symposium by Plato

2024 Group Reads Unread: 13
Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Christmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope

2025 Group Reads Unread: 14
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Meditation by Franz Kafka
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Republic of Plato by Plato
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Satantango by László Krasznahorkai

2026 Group Reads Unread:

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Read A Book For Every Year Since I Was Born
Challenge Started January 2013
1957 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 7/4/13
1958 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 2/3/15
1959 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 8/5/15
1960 Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, 10/28/14
1961 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 3/30/15
1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1/11/13
1963 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 2/3/13
1964 This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart, 3/17/16
1965 Dune by Frank Herbert, 6/20/15
1966 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 9/18/14
1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, 5/7/14
1968 True Grit by Charles Portis, 11/20/13
1969 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 11/24/13
1970 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, 7/23/15
1971 Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks, 9/15/16
1972 Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, 11/21/15
1973 The Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler, 8/15/16
1974 A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields, 1/27/14 (3rd Reread)
1975 Salem's Lot byStephen King, 10/25/14
1976 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer, 11/16/13
1977 Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer, 12/27/13
1978 The Stand by Stephen King, 10/6/13
1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1/16/13
1980 Cradle and All by James Patterson, 1/4/14
1981 Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, 8/8/16
1982 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 9/11/16
1983 First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, 5/8/15
1984 The House on Mango Street, 4/11/17
1985 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 10/22/13
1986 The Last Don by Mario Puzo, 9/6/14
1987 Beloved by Toni Morrison, 3/21/17
1988 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 2/6/13
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1/29/17
1990 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, 7/27/14
1991 New York Dead by Stuart Woods, 12/31/14
1992 Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, 8/21/13
1993 The Giver by Lois Lowry, 2/17/13
1994 Inca Gold by Clive Cussler, 1/21/14
1995 Imperfect Strangers by Stuart Woods, 9/16/13
1996 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, 2/28/14
1997 Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods, 11/25/13
1998 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, 4/28/13
1999 Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr, 4/16/15
2000 How the Dead Live by Will Self, 8/18/13
2001 The Christmas Train by David Baldacci, 12/6/13
2002 Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods, 7/28/14
2003 Flashback by Nevada Barr, 2/13/14
2004 Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler, 9/28/14
2005 Dark Watch by Clive Cussler, 11/13/14
2006 The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2/15/13
2007 The Quickie by James Patterson, 5/19/13
2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, 9/1/13
2009 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, 12/26/14
2010 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, 3/31/13
2011 Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff, 8/10/13
2012 The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson, 12/10/13
2013 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, 11/24/14
2014 Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett, 4/24/16
2015 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, 9/27/16
2016 Two If by Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard, 4/18/17
2017 The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff, 6/4/23
2018 The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton, 11/7/23
2019 The Huntress by Kate Quinn, 3/16/23
2020 The Authenticity Project, 4/13/25
2021 The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, 1/9/23
2022 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 7/23/23
2023 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, 2/15/24
2024 The Women, 3/11/25
2025
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The 10 best selling books for 1957 the year I was born. Not necessarily published that year.
Challenge Started 4/13/2011 Completed 7/10/16
✓#1 By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens, Read 5/18/2013, 3 Stars
✓#2 Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Read 4/13/2011, 4 Stars
✓#3 Compulsion by Meyer Levin, Read 10/12/2014, 4 Stars
✓#4 Rally Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman, Read 6/13/2013, 4 Stars
✓#5 Blue Camellia by Frances Parkinson Keyes, Read 6/21/16, 3.5 Stars
✓#6 Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson, Read 7/10/16, 2 Stars
✓#7 The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier, Read 4/8/2012, 4 Stars
✓#8 On the Beach by Nevil Shute, Read 10/17/2011, 5 Stars
✓#9 Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain, 7/7/16, 4 Stars
✓#10 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Read 6/5/2011, 5 Stars

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Pulitzer Prize List
This is a reference list, not a challenge.
✔Books Read - * Books I Own -

1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
✔1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather
1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
✔1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber
1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
✔1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
✔1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. Stribling
✔1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
✔1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
✔1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
✔1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
*1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
*1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
✔1950 - The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
✔1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
✔1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
✔1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
✔1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
✔1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973 -The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
✔1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
✔1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
✔1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
*1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
✔1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
✔1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
✔1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
✔1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Prolux
1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
*1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
✔2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks
✔2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
✔2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
✔2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
*2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
*2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2016 - The Sympathizer by Nguyen
2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2019 - The Overstory by Richard Powers
2020 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2021 - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
2022 - The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
✔2023 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2023 - Trust by Hernan Diaz
2024 - Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
✔2025 - James By Percival Everett

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Women authors I've read

A-H
Louisa May Alcott
Isabel Allende
Dorothy Allison
Maya Angelou
Margaret Atwood
Jean M. Auel
Jane Austen
Nevada Barr
Aimee Bender
Jenna Blum
Nellie Bly
Dee Borgoyn
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Sandra Brown
Pearl S. Buck
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Octavia E. Butler
A.S. Byatt
Dia Calhoun
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Agatha Christie
Sandra Cisneros
Mary Higgins Clark
Suzanne Collins
Patricia Cornwell
Simone de Beauvoir
Isak Dinesen
Daphne du Maurier
Marguerite Duras
Jennifer Egan
George Eliot
Edna Ferber
Fannie Flagg
Gillian Flynn
Anne Frank
Elizabeth Gaskell
Stella Gibbons
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Susan Glaspell
Sue Grafton
Sara Gruen
Helene Hanff
Lorraine Hansberry
Paula Hawkins
Laura Hillenbrand
Alice Hoffman
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Susan Howatch
Zora Neale Hurston
I-P
Shirley Jackson
Sarah Orne Jewett
Helen Keller
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Laurie R. King
Barbara Kingsolver
Madeleine L'Engle
Ursula K. Le Guin
Harper Lee
Doris Lessing
Lois Lowry
Katherine Anne MacLean
Hilary Mantel
Kamala Markandaya
Carson McCullers
Grace Metalious
Caroline Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Margaret Mitchell
L.M. Montgomery
Erin Morgenstern
Toni Morrison
Iris Murdoch
E. Nesbit
Flannery O'Connor
Emmuska Orczy
Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett
Katherine Paterson
Elizabeth Peters
Marge Piercy
Sylvia Plath
Katherine Anne Porter
Annie Proulx
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Q-Z
Ayn Rand
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Jean Rhys
Anne Rice
Luanne Rice
Emilie Richards
Marilynne Robinson
Veronica Roth
J.K. Rowling
Arundhati Roy
Diane Setterfield
Anna Sewell
Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Helen Simonson
Betty Smith
Lilian Smith
Beatrice Sparks
Johanna Spyri
Sara Steger
Chevy Stevens
Mary Stewart
Kathryn Stockett
Elizabeth Strout
Amy Tan
Kay Thompson
P.L. Travers
Sigrid Undset
Alice Walker
Amanda Eyre Ward
Rebecca West
Edith Wharton
Margery Williams Bianco
Jeanette Winterson
Virginia Woolf
Gabrielle Zevin

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Women authors I've NOT read, with books I own, TBR

*Kindle
Caroline Alexander
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book
Anita Diamant
The Red Tent
Kim Edwards
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Tana French
In the Woods
Shirley Ann Grau
The Keepers of the House
Lisa Gray
*Thin Air
Kathleen Grissom
The Kitchen House
Elin Hilderbrand
Barefoot
Ngaio Marsh
Died In The Wool
Madeline Miller
*The Song of Achilles
Megan Miranda
All the Missing Girls
Malika Oufkir
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Tatiana de Rosnay
Sarah's Key
Lisa Scottoline
Running from the Law
Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch

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Recommended women author's I've NOT read, with accompanying book.
I will research these if a book and author sound interesting I will add to my TBR.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing
Anita Brookner Look At Me
Leonora Carrington The Hearing Trumpet
Elena Ferrante The Days of Abandonment
Penelope Fitzgerald The Beginning of Spring
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing
Jan Karon Mitford series?
Margaret Laurence The Stone Angel
Clarice Lispector The Hour of the Star
Penelope Lively Moon Tiger?
Nancy Mitford The Pursuit Of Love
Elsa Morante Arturo's Island
Louise Penny Still Life?
Ellis Peters A Morbid Taste for Bones
Mariam Petrosyan The Gray House
Barbara Pym Excellent Women
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Elizabeth Taylor Angel
Sylvia Townsend Warner Lolly Willowes

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Recommended women author's I've NOT read, with NO accompanying book.
I will research these author's and their books if some sound interesting I will add to my TBR.

Enid Bagnold
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Maeve Binchy
Elizabeth Bowen
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Olive Ann Burns
Emma Cline
Colette
Nora Ephron
Rachel Field
Julie Garwood
Ellen Glasgow
Lillian Hellman
Grace Livingston Hill
Victoria Holt
Tess Uriza Holthe
Margaret Kennedy
Jean Kerr
Alison Lurie
Mary McCarthy
Colleen McCullough
Caroline Pafford Miller
Nancy Mitford
Anaïs Nin
Julia Peterkin
Jodi Picoult
Belva Plain
Dawn Powell
Lisa See
Carol Shields
Gene Stratton Porter
Danielle Steele
Marguerite Steen
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Josephine Tey
Anne Tyler
Mary Jane Ward
Eudora Welty
Dorothy Whipple
Margaret Wilson

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Hope to see more from you on this thread, Bob. Keep up the good work.

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I cannibalized my original thread. Kept and re-organized all that I wanted. Saved space for expansion. All deletions were at least 6-7 years old. I don't know what I will do in the future, but at least it is somewhat cleaned up.

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Bob wrote: "I cannibalized my original thread. Kept and re-organized all that I wanted. Saved space for expansion. All deletions were at least 6-7 years old. I don't know what I will do in the future, but at l..."

Time for me to do cleanup also with my thread.