diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 03ac446b..6bec796b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
 url = "1.7"
 futures = "0.1"
+tokio-threadpool = "0.1"
 tokio = "0.1"
 tokio-codec = "0.1"
 http = "0.1"
diff --git a/src/tools/wrapped_reader_stream.rs b/src/tools/wrapped_reader_stream.rs
index d930e022..4ad091b7 100644
--- a/src/tools/wrapped_reader_stream.rs
+++ b/src/tools/wrapped_reader_stream.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 use failure::*;
+use tokio_threadpool;
 use tokio::io::{AsyncRead};
 use std::io::Read;
 use futures::Async;
 use futures::stream::Stream;
+use std::io::ErrorKind::{Other, WouldBlock};
 
 pub struct WrappedReaderStream<R: Read> {
     reader: R,
@@ -19,7 +21,12 @@ impl <R: Read> Read for WrappedReaderStream<R> {
     fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
         //tokio::io::would_block(|| self.reader.read(buf))
         // fixme: howto??
-        self.reader.read(buf)
+        match tokio_threadpool::blocking(|| self.reader.read(buf)) {
+            Ok(Async::Ready(res)) => res,
+            Ok(Async::NotReady) =>  Err(WouldBlock.into()),
+            Err(err) => Err(std::io::Error::new(Other, "`blocking` annotated I/O must be called \
+                                                from the context of the Tokio runtime.")),
+        }
     }
 }