About

Reading can transform people's lives.*

I started bookables a while ago to track my published reviews, but am now relaunching it as my reading place. There'll be:

  • more reviews
  • more exploration and application of contextual reader services
  • reading challenges
  • features on readers and reading
  • stuff I haven't thought of yet (to do with reading)
This blog is about reading, readers, and the people, places and practices that enable reading in the community.

I'm Alison, and I work as a librarian in a public library. My role includes information and reader services and online engagement. I also review books, and write.
Artistically, I'm particularly captivated by conceptual art with words, public art, poems spoken or stamped into concrete, theatre, short stories, microfiction and any good story.




The Reading Agency. (2012). Read: The Reading Agency http://readingagency.org.uk.


The ink drawing on this blog's home page is by Edward Ardizzone from Eleanor Farjeon's The Little Bookroom