“Getting Rid of Bradley” by Jennifer Crusie was my 22nd book. I’ve seen this name a million times and I swear I must be mildly dyslexic because I saw it as “Jennifer Cruise” forever. It wasn’t until the other day after I was halfway through the book that I realized it was Crusie. (Unless it’s Cruise and I’m just NOW experiencing a mild dyslexia.)

Lucy is getting rid of Bradley. She just divorced him for cheating on her. Though really I think she was looking for an excuse to get out of a loveless marriage. She finds herself attracted to a guy who definitely looks like a bad boy. And she thinks she’s right when he mugs her in an alley. Only he doesn’t mug her because she beats him over the head with her bag (which is filled with heavy physics books). Only later he shows up at her door. Because he’s not a mugger. He’s a cop and he was trying to protect her from being shot.

It seems our little Bradley might be in trouble with the law, and it seems Lucy might be in some danger. So the cop, Zack ends up moving in to protect her. Of course this isn’t standard procedure but he’s a little taken with her, and thinks she has no survival instinct and is clearly helpless without him.

Lucy has three dogs. One of them is this little mop-like dog that invented a joke. The dog invented a joke. And he tells it over and over and over. Basically anytime he has your attention, he rolls over onto his back and throws his feet up in the air. In order to make him stop you have to say: “Dead dog?” And then he rolls over and hops up like he thinks he fooled you.

Anyway it’s a really cute book.