Tumgik
#nino cipri
genspiel · 3 months
Text
Ray Walker: is a bisexual Lakota man
me: oh, some bi and Indigenous rep! that's cool
also Ray Walker: has "never been a romantic" and "never expect[s] anything long-term" from relationships, feels like "romantic" is an inaccurate description of his relationship with his ex, and asks another character if they can be friends who have sex sometimes
me: oh wait holy shit, is he aroallo???
17 notes · View notes
Text
Finna by Nino Cipri
goodreads
Tumblr media
When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store -- but not that one -- slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.
To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.
Mod opinion: I hadn‘t heard of this one before this poll, but it sounds super interesting and fun.
21 notes · View notes
transbookoftheday · 6 months
Text
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri
Tumblr media
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself.
25 notes · View notes
Do you know this queer character?
Tumblr media
Darkness is Nonbinary and Genderfluid, and uses they/them pronouns!
18 notes · View notes
yourdailyqueer · 8 months
Photo
Tumblr media
Nino Cipri
Gender: Non binary (they/them)
Sexuality: Queer
DOB: 2 August 1985  
Ethnicity: White - American
Occupation: Writer, teacher
47 notes · View notes
literary-illuminati · 9 months
Text
Book Review 28 – Finna by Nino Cipri
Tumblr media
This was another slim book I picked up basically blind entirely so I had something fast on hand to read. Unfortunately, didn’t work out nearly so well for me as most of the other’s I’ve read. Which is a shame, because the fundamental idea behind it is incredible, or at least seemed like an excuse for a kind of ridiculous pulpy adventure that was just made for me.
So, the story’s about a pair of 20-something queer dead-enders working at a bigbox furniture story that is similar to but legally distinct from Ikea. The Monday after they broke up, they find themselves both working a shift at the same time. And, even more awkwardly, after a transient wormhole forms and a customer wanders into a parallel universe’s not!Ikea, the two of them are volunteered to go rescue the wold woman. From this follows adventures through wild and deadly alternate realities, self-discovery, realizing how much there is out in the world, post-breakup reconciliation, a moment of dramatic self-actualization-through-heroic-sacrifice, and so on and et cetera.
Now, there are good qualities to this book, but I will be honest that the weeks since I’ve read it have dulled my memory of everything except the petty annoyances. So this review is basically just going to be complaining about what I thought didn’t work or irked me out of all proportion to its significance. Okay? Okay.
So fundamentally this feels like this could have been a fun, cheesy absurd comedy about some #relatable millennials trapped in retail purgatory and all its kafkaesque upbeat cheer. Tragically it was written by someone whose memories or ideas of what that’s like were warped by too many years on twitter and around people being professionally writer for the book to ever really ring true (to me, at least).
Or, possibly better put, it felt like the book was trying to tell me what sort of story it was and what emotional journeys its characters were going on and what it was trying to satirize more than it ever followed through on any of it? Which is pretty unhelpfully vague as a complain, I’m aware.
More concretely, the emotional arc of the two leads just felt incredibly rushed – these did not feel like two people who had had a messy breakup after an incredible hurtful argument three days before! They were, at most, slightly awkward around each other, and inside of fifty pages they were friends again. Which was just deeply emotionally unsatisfying for what the back cover sold the book as, or for my own desire for my messy drama generally. More generally, they both theoretically have flaws, but you only know this because the narration keeps explicitly saying what they are and how they’re growing past them instead of them ever really, like, meaningfully fucking them over or causing them to be unsympathetic.
Our protagonist also just had an utter surfeit of self-knowledge – her internal monologue sometimes reads more like the author’s notes on the character’s passions, neuroses and flaws than anything anyone would actually think about themselves. Especially someone in her position. And all the therapy-speak just really made me grind my teeth (not least because whatever the book says, there’s no way she’d able to afford the regular therapist sessions she apparently has on regular retail wages. Which is a minor thing but a) it really does annoy me, and b) it feels telling.)
And, fundamentally, the book just kind of took itself too seriously? Or, more properly, given how utterly absurd the premise and most of the set-pieces were, it just wasn’t nearly funny enough. Or horrifying enough, if you wanted to go the other way – there’s the raw material for some decent creepypasta style horror there, but that would kind of undercut how wholesome and uplifting nad etc the narrative’s clearly supposed to be.
So yeah, ended up using some amazing conceits and occasionally great visuals to construct a pretty tepid adventure story around an emotional core that didn’t feel real to me. What a pity.
22 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
vote YES if you have finished the entire book.
vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.
(faq · submit a book)
5 notes · View notes
torbooks · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
Love books, love plants, the sun is a deadly laser but don't you just feel alive when you stretch in the light
Check out Black Tide by K.C. Jones and Finna by Nino Cipri!
11 notes · View notes
alphabetsoupbookclub · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media
Our book to read for this pride month is Finna by Nino Cipri.
Ava and Jules are two minimum wage workers at a big box store. Fresh out of a breakup, the two are thrust on a multiversal adventure in a quest to find an elderly customer who disappeared through a portal to another dimension. Can they - and their relationship - survive the ordeal? Find out with us as we read Cipri's exploration of queer relationships, capitalism and accountability.
Read along and join our discord to add to the conversation and tune in to the next episode of the podcast to be released at the end of June!
10 notes · View notes
aspens-library · 1 year
Text
Finna by Nino Cipri
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A queer sci-fi novella where a wormhole opens up in a knock-off Ikea and the company sends retail workers in to retrieve a customer.
One thing to know about me is that I am a huge sucker for books set in knock-off Ikea stores. I love the anti-capitalistic characters who hate their job (as I also hate my job and capitalistic company I work for).
I found the characters extremely relatable and the world/multiverse incredibly intriguing. I immediately started the second book in the series (Defekt).
Tumblr media
19 notes · View notes
desdasiwrites · 9 months
Text
Tumblr media
– Nino Cipri, Finna
2 notes · View notes
genspiel · 5 months
Text
Derek stepped gingerly into the water, not out of distaste for the cold water flooding his boots, but because he was distracted by a school of small fish darting around his feet, cutting through the water with a silvery glint. One seemed to pause before him, investigating his waterlogged boots. Beneath the murky water, Derek made out the smooth bowl and gilt handle, of a soup spoon, which had sprouted tiny, transparent fins. It darted away with the rest of the school of flatware when Derek took another step.
1 note · View note
Text
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri
goodreads
Tumblr media
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself.
Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this short story before but it sounds interesting (& is free on tor.com here).
6 notes · View notes
transbookoftheday · 9 months
Text
Finna by Nino Cipri
Tumblr media
Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange.
When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store — but not that one — slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.
To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.
25 notes · View notes
Text
i absolutely adore but also fucking despise the concept of "a corporation using multiverses to do vertical integration of its supply chain and thus cut costs"
4 notes · View notes
whirling-ghost · 10 months
Text
do you ever read a short story that you need to be a novel? Nino Cipri's Before We Disperse Likestar Stuff. I want to scream. I want three hundred pages of this story. I want to physically bite the book. I want to dog ear the pages because I'm rereading a paragraph and don't want it to end
4 notes · View notes