A Good Short Read: Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook

Just finished this book,  It was a fun, short read about finding a mate.  Sarah Herlihy is divorced preschool teacher looking for a date,  Her friends persuade her to answer an ad in the personals.  She finds one that interests her, but it turns out that she meets her father!  The rest of the story is about searching for the right guy for Sarah and finding all sorts of unsatisfactory dates in the process.  The title comes from part of an ad; evidently dogs are a magnet to getting a date in Boston.  Most of the characters claim to own dogs, but they don't.  Some even borrow dogs from friends to attract a member of the opposite sex.

The book is just a fun read, nothing really earth shaking happens, but the characters are well developed and funny.  The best character is Sarah's dad's nutty girlfriend, Dolly, who does all kinds of silly things and talks about herself in the third person.  A good book to relax with on a rainy night.