#soniah kamal

[in-the-stacks]

Presenting Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal. Reviewed by The Romantic Librarian for In the Stacks.

http://www.inthestacks.tv/2023/03/the-romantic-librarian-unmarriageable-by-soniah-kamal

#Books #Librarians #Reading #AmReading #MyLibrarian #Guest Librarian #In the Stacks #video book reviews #Librarian Book Reviews #Unmarriageable #Pride and Prejudice #Pakistan #Soniah Kamal #Jane Austen

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌙 Ramadan Mubarak - Books ft. Muslims

🦇 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. To celebrate this Islamic holy month, here are a FEW books featuring Muslim characters. I hope you consider adding a few to your TBR.

❓What was the last book you read that taught you something new OR what's at the top of your TBR?

🌙 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 🌙 Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed 🌙 Love From A to Z - S.K. Ali 🌙 Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 Yes No Maybe So - Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum 🌙 I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai 🌙 Exit West - Mohsin Hamid 🌙 Written in the Stars - Aisha Saeed 🌙 The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani 🌙 Much Ado About Nada - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 The Eid Gift - S.K. Ali 🌙 More Than Just a Pretty Face - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan 🌙 Snow - Orhan Pamuk 🌙 Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged - Ayisha Malik 🌙 The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 And I Darken - Kiersten White 🌙 The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid

🌙 Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H 🌙 The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Ms. Marvel - G. Willow Wilson 🌙 Love from Mecca to Medina - S.K. Ali 🌙 The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty 🌙 The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim 🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🌙 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan 🌙 The Moor’s Account - Laila Lalami 🌙 Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 When a Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Quershi 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

🌙 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 🌙 All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 🌙 The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik 🌙 Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif 🌙 Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi 🌙 A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena 🌙 Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga 🌙 The Mismatch by Sara Jafari 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen 🌙 Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan 🌙 Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson 🌙 The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar 🌙 A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Nayra and the Djinn by Michael Berry 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

🌙 The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim 🌙 Salaam, with Love by Sara Sharaf Beg 🌙 Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi 🌙 Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan 🌙 Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam 🌙 She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert 🌙 Hollow Fires by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 Internment by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Love in a Headscarf - Shelina Zahra Janmohamed 🌙 Courting Samira by Amal Awad 🌙 The Other Half of Happiness by Ayisha Malik 🌙 Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 🌙 Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Muslim Girls Rise - Saira Mir and Aaliya Jaleel 🌙 Amira & Hamza - Samira Ahmed 🌙 The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan

🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao 🌙 The Yard - Aliyyah Eniath 🌙 When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar 🌙 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 🌙 Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja 🌙 The Chai Factor by Farah Heron 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

#ramadan #muslim writers #muslim #books #book list #ramadan mubarak #ramadan kareem #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

[sesame-sim]

BOOK - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

QUICK SYNOPSIS - As the book cover says, Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan. Our Elizabeth and Darcy in this book are Alysba Binat and Valentine Darsee.

IMAGE 1+2 - Alys snorkeling in Sulani with her childhood best friend Tana Fyres and the two of them taking photos on the beach. Tana is her classmate from the co-ed international school that Alys and Jena both attend. This was an unforgettable school trip which she will one day look back with longing when her family's financial situation shifts and they move away.

BOOK TIME/PLACE - 1980, The Red Sea

MY SAVE TIME/PLACE - Sim Year 50 / Sim Day 5629 / Summer D2 / MON / Sulani

Popular song from the times, 1979's Good Times by Chic (for Alysba's good times that will be left behind in her childhood. Sad face.)

#unmarriageable #books #fiction #pride and prejudice #bookish save #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #sims 4 gameplay #simblr #Spotify #booklr #sims 4 rotational play

[willreadforbooze]

DRUNK REVIEW: Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

“I'm pretty sure this book referenced Pride and Prejudice more than my 10th grade English class where we actually read pride and prejudice.” - @ginnypomm DRUNK REVIEW: Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal - reviewed by Ginny #willreadforbooze

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal Reviewed by GGGinny What I drank: Rose all day! and by that I mean Rose starting at dinner and a little more after dark. Goodreads Overview: In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor…

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#Fanta

[bookclub4m]

22 “Literary Fan Fiction” (retellings, adaptations, sequels, parallel novels, etc.) books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

For this booklist, the original story being retold/referenced appears (in parentheses).

Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)

The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández)

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Windward Heights by Maryse Condé (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (The Stranger by Albert Camus)

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (A Room With a View by E.M. Forster)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (The Horror of Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft)

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells)

The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (The Scarlet Letter by Nataniel Hawthorne and the Ramayana by Valmiki)

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (The Tempest by William Shakespeare)

Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez (King Lear by William Shakespeare)

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (The Tale of Shim Ch'ŏng)

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (The Ramayana by Valmiki)

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall (Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

My Jim by Nancy Rawles (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (Wee'git stories)

Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)

Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita (Various works by Jane Austen)

Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

#booklists #literary fanfiction

[lenskij]

Soniah Kamal: Unmarriageable

Review • 4.75/5

Pakistan is a perfect fit for a modern retelling of the beloved Pride and Prejudice. The characters were beautifully human, and their motives were so perfectly clear: why did Mrs. Binat insist so much on her daughters getting married? Why was it so upsetting for her, that Alysba declined Dr Kaleen's proposal? Why did Sherry instead agree to marry him? And why was it a true family emergency, when Lady ran away with Wickaam?

Unmarriageable was obviously written for a foreign (Western) audience, and the feminist Alysba was an excellent medium for explaining the culture for those in the unknown. The reader never once forgot where the story is set: the endless description of food and clothes made sure of it.In addition to the P&P plot, the book also discusses the influence of English culture (colonisation) in Pakistan, with a special attention to how society values English literature more than local literature. I also loved the tongue-in-cheek references to P&P.

Because this is a retelling, the book assumes the reader is familiar with P&P from before. And although I knew how the book would end (spoiler alert: Alysba and Darsee will obviously end up happy together), I was drawn in by the characters' warmth and energy. I enjoyed this book immensely.

#my first review in months wooo #the library's plastic cover made it difficult to make a good pic of the book but i like my reviews with a picture #i had so much fun reading this like 'heehee here comes darsee with that godawful proposal' #it's not fully 5/5 because it didn't really reach the emotional weight i want my 5/5 books to have #but the Storygraph allows quarter stars ratings hihi #anyway thank you for reading!! #book review #booklr #liz reviews #soniah kamal #unmarriageable #pride & prejudice

[cupofteajones]

Asian & Asian American Voices: Great Reads to Celebrate the Heritage

Asian & Asian American Voices: Great Reads to Celebrate the Heritage

Reading about different cultures other than our own is a great way to not only educate ourselves but creates empathy and understanding in our daily lives. Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is honored in May and Asian & Asian American voices are always important to highlight but it is needed now more than ever due to discrimination and racism that is targeted towards this ethnicity…

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#Asian Literature #Asian Pacific American Heritage Month #Books #Comics #George Takei #Graphic Novels #Sayaka Murata #Soniah Kamal #StandUpforAAPI #StopAsianHate #They Called Us Enemy #UK Books #Unmarriageable

[dandelionsunlight]

As I was leaving that house, Pinkie, I realized that I'd spent this past decade there, if not physically, then in my heart by missing it and longing for it. But there was nothing there. It should have ceased to be home the minute we arrived in Dilipabad and you began to scrub clean this house. I should have rolled up my sleeves and joined you. They say that blood is thicker than water. I say to hell with that. If blood mistreats you, better water. And if friends prove false, no matter, find better or be alone and be your own best friend.

Barkat Binat, p. 322, Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

#Unmarriageable #Soniah Kamal #Pride and Prejudice #quotes #if blood mistreats you better water #family #friendship

[ladyherenya]

Books read in May

Four fairytale retellings, three Jane Austen retellings... yes, there’s a theme.

Favourite cover: Briarley.

Reread: The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells and Kissing Galileo by Penny Reid. Plus bits and pieces of other books.

Still reading: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett.

Next up: Too many choices! Thorn by Intisar Khanani, Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell, The Physicians of Vilnoc by Lois McMaster Bujold, The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton...

(Longer reviews and ratings on LibraryThing and Dreamwidth.)

*

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer:

Cinder (narrated by Rebecca Soler): I’d known about this for years and been repelled by the prospect of Cinderella as a cyborg. I’d mistakenly assumed she was a robotic AI (and also that I wouldn’t like that sort of thing). It turns out that Cinder isn’t an AI, just a cyborg due to a horrific accident; a teenage girl working to support her stepfamily as a mechanic at New Beijing’s market. The twists are well foreshadowed, but I expect fairytales to be at least somewhat predictable, and this is entertaining. Even though Cinder’s world is currently facing a pandemic… (I was surprised that I didn’t mind that. Perhaps because there's a hopeful focus on finding a cure?)

Scarlet (narrated by Rebecca Soler): This Little Red Riding Hood retelling is set immediately after Cinder. Scarlet Benoir, desperate to find her missing grandmother, sets out for Paris with a strange young man called Wolf. Some of the Red Riding Hood aspects were excellent; others were too uncomfortably violent. I wonder if this would have appealed to me more if it had stepped back from the romance in order to focus even more on Scarlet’s relationship with her grandmother. (A missed opportunity, I thought.) However, I really liked this as a continuation of Cinder’s story, especially once her story intersects with Scarlet’s.

Network Effect: a Murderbot novel by Martha Wells: More Murderbot! New Murderbot! As expected, I liked this a lot. Unexpectedly, I don’t have much to say about it. It was great to get a whole novel this time. Very satisfying. Murderbot spends time with the people it cares most about, and develops a better idea of what it wants to do. The shape of the story reminded me of Wells’ Raksura books. (After I read this, I was intending to go back to the beginning and reread All Systems Red but I got distracted rereading The Cloud Roads instead.)

Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan by Soniah Kamal: I was initially put off by the prose style and was on the verge abandoning this when something clicked. I ended up enjoying this a lot. It successfully brings something new to a very familiar story. It's quite believable that Alys, despite a decade teaching English literature, doesn’t recognise all the Pride and Prejudice parallels suddenly popping up in her own life -- there are enough differences in the names, personalities and circumstances of her family and friends. (However: Darsee and Wickaam? Really?) I thought it could have expanded the romance a bit more, but on the whole, I was impressed.

Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev: Ashna Raje (cousin of Trisha from Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors) agrees to a celebrity cooking show because she desperately needs money for her restaurant -- not expecting to be forced to work with her ex, a footballer facing retirement due to an injury. Lots of emotional intensity is exactly what I want from Persuasion retellings (although I wasn’t expecting it to get quite so sad and dark. Given how Ashna and her mother are affected by traumatic experiences, it feels misleading for the blurb to describe this as an “enchanting romantic comedy”). Compelling. I liked it a lot while reading it but wanted something more from the ending.

Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson: Told entirely in text messages. When Martin sends Haley a message, Haley makes an assumption about which Martin from her US History class he is. I was hooked -- I love stories driven by dialogue, and the way epistolary novels often require a reader to read between the lines and put the pieces together themselves. The book does a wonderful job of making Haley and Martin’s conversations about things like summer jobs, friends, family and nerdy interests believable and possible for an outsider to follow. They’re smart, funny and, incorrect assumptions aside, good at listening to each other.

Briarly by Aster Glenn Gray: It’s taken me awhile to get around to reading this Beauty and the Beast retelling but here we are. When an English parson stumbles across the estate of a nobleman-turned-dragon and is threatened for stealing a rose, he refuses to send for his daughter. (“She is very much engaged,” the parson said gravely, for it was true, in its way: Rose was very much engaged in war work, in her studies, in a great many things that did not involve catering to the moods of a dragon.) I loved the WWII setting, the prose and the conversations. Oh, and the dog.

Hamster Princess: Of Mice and Magic by Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfisher): Harriet is sent on a quest to help twelve mice princesses who are dancing their shoes off every night. I enjoyed this even more than Harriet the Invincible -- Harriet is practical, unsentimental and bit bossy, which is an asset when it comes to helping other princesses deal with magical curses.

A Duet for Invisible Strings by Llinos Cathryn Thomas: Heledd is the first violinist in the Prelude Chamber Orchestra. After she pulls Rosemary, the conductor, out of the path of an oncoming car, Heledd knows her three chances are up; They will be coming for her. I read this for the music and the atmosphere, and was not disappointed. In my opinion, there are not enough fantasy stories about musicians and orchestras. (There might not be enough fiction about musicians and orchestras, full stop, but maybe I just haven’t known how to find them?)

The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne: A Persuasion-ish SF YA set in the same world as Donne’s Jane Eyre-ish Brightly Burning. To save her family and their spaceship, nineteen year old Princess Leonie has to find a way to sell her water-filtration system or else accede to her father’s wishes by marrying for money. This kept my interest until the end, but I wish that Donne had either made this purely historical fictional or else had jettisoned the social “season”; spaceships have incredible potential to be more than a backdrop for historical social mores. And teenage lovers reuniting doesn't have the heartwarming poignancy of Persuasion’s second-chance romance.

#Ah yes #another post I started months ago #Herenya reviews books #Marissa Meyer #Murderbot #Martha Wells #Soniah Kamal #Sonali Dev #Ursula Vernon #Lana Wood Johnson #Alexa Donne #Aster Glenn Gray #Llinos Cathryn Thomas

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🦇 Happy Monday to my fellow bookish bats, dragons, & babes. I hope you had an amazing weekend and the chance to celebrate World Book Day in your own way. How did you celebrate (hopefully with a good book!)?

☪️ Belated Eid Mubarak to my fellow Muslim book babes. There are so many contemporary novels written by Muslim authors that don't get the attention they deserve. Here are nine I hope you'll consider adding to your ever-growing TBR, in an effort to read books from more diverse voices this year!

Books Mentioned: 🌙 The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid ✨ All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir  🌙 Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal  ✨ Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed  🌙 Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin ✨ The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood  🌙 Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed  ✨ Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin  🌙 Salaam, With Love by Sara Sharaf Beg 

✨ Have a wonderful day, bookish babes!

#arab american heritage month #muslim writers #eid mubarak #book recommendations #book recs #world book day #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

[sesame-sim]

I’m now at Sim Year 50 in my save! Major milestone. Time to take a moment and see where we’re at in each book that I’m playing.

BOOK - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (fiction, retelling)

QUICK SYNOPSIS - As the book cover says, Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan.

HOW FAR ARE WE? - Of the current books, this is the one I've played the longest. It started in June 2020. Have played 30 sim years which cover 1950-1979 in the book’s time.

The majority of what I'd played up until this point was the parents' generation growing up, meeting each other, getting married, having kids.

Now the main characters' gen are children, but that doesn't mean we are far from the plot because some core events happen in their childhood and teen years such as what occurs to cause cousins Valentine Darsee and Jeorgeullah Wickaam to be on bad terms with each other.

3 PEEKS INTO THE NEXT DECADE:

The main characters Alys, Valentine, Jena, Fahad, and Jeorgeullah all become teens.

Jena and Alys's 3 younger sisters (Marizba, Qittyara, Lady) are born as well as Valentine's younger sister Jujeena

An accident causes the death of Valentine's father and both of Jeorgeullah Wickaam's parents.

(btw this one took a long freakin time to put together bc of the massive cast of characters, and I didn't even include everybody's extended families that I still play now and then but aren't important to the story. Like, ain't nobody gonna care about Uncle Goga's grandkids or what Alys's mother's older brother Nisar's future wife Nona's brother's love interest looks like lol)

#unmarriageable #pride and prejudice #books #booklr #bookish save #fiction #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 historical #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 historical #simblr #while I work on this apparently 32000 ppl are listening to baekhyun sleep on twitter/x

[twobrokegirlswithbooks]

jomp bpc: set in a country other than yours

Pakistan

-Nerdy Panda

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #unmarriageable #soniah kamal #books

[kcinpa]

#sonali dev #uzma jalaluddin #soniah kamal #jane austen #jaff #to read

[signal-failure]

Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable is an warm story about sisterhood and friendship, as well as a love letter to Pride and Prejudice. The five Binat sisters live in Dilipabad, a small Pakistani town just across the Indian border from Amritsar (the setting of the Bollywood spinoff Bride and Prejudice. Is that not how everyone learns geography?). A family estrangement has left their branch struggling, unable to live as they used to, so the older girls teach English, while Mrs. Binat schemes about beautification to catch wealthy husbands. Teenage Lady flirts with everyone,  Mari is a pedantic Quran reader, and youngest sister Qitty is chubby and forgotten.  This has everything we love in P&P, with a distinctly Pakistani style.

(via Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan)

#unmarriageanble #pride and prejudice #Soniah Kamal #book review #netgalley #thefictionaddiction #amreading #bookblr

[yourfaveismuslim]

Your fave is Muslim: Alysba Binat and Valentine Darsee (Unmarriageable)

#alysba binat #valentine darsee #unmarriageable #soniah kamal #pride and prejudice in pakistan #canon #your fave is muslim #muslim characters #islam #actualangelaziraphale

[mariaslozak]

Have you seen that an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan and titled Unmarriageable is coming out this month? The author writes,

“Can there be any tale more emblematic of Pakistani morals and manners than Pride and Prejudice?  Thankfully, unlike in Regency England two hundred years ago, women in contemporary Pakistan no longer depend on marriage for financial survival and so I appreciated the challenge of a faithful retelling. I relished Islamizing Austen’s names and adapting characters and situations while keeping true to the original. I hope my novel makes you laugh as you meet Mrs. Pinkie Binat whose purpose in life is to be a good mother meaning she must marry off her daughters to Princes, and ‘third culture kids’ Alys Binat [a teacher of English literature] and Valentine Darcee as they tussle over books and looks, and Sherry Looclus who has to choose between her best friend, Alys, or marrying Mr. Kaleen, a man Alys does not like.

If you’ve ever felt unmarriageable or wondered why you should get married just for the sake of ‘getting married’, then this story is for you.”

I’m not the biggest fan of P&P but this one is joining my TBR.

#romantic fiction #jane austen #contemporary romance #soniah kamal #books #diverse authors #pakistan #colonialism #tbr