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Truth and Reality : I have a theory that cultures have a preference for either of them. This can easily be found in their preferred word of choice in the sentence “Did he really/truely do that ?". English prefers Reality (although “truely” is not unheard of), French prefers Truth ("Il a vraiment fait ça ?"). Spanish is in reality’s camp (realmente) as Portuguese. Finnish, Italian, Chinese and Indonesian use Truth. Russian uses a mixture of both, Japanese also, with the added idea of authenticity. Here is a crude map of the matter. Can you add to it ?

In changelog, but wanted to show it off here. You can now export a "poster" of your shelf to share on social media / reddit / etc on your shelf page. Shows the first 25 books (respecting your order) of your shelf. Will try to make it (more) beautiful. FYI The actual image quality of the poster is better than the one you see here

humbly asking for some french lit recommendations for my first trip to paris. will be reading at cafes and on transit, so nothing too hard to jump in and out of, ideally. really haven't read much from france besides candide, the lover, les mis, and some camus