Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Since I have started entering my books into an online catalog, I have actually been looking at books that have been sitting on my shelves for a long while (all neglected).  I have decided to read Our hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough as my next nonfiction read.  It is a Common Reader edition.  They reprint long out of print books.  This was a bestseller in the 40s (apparently it went through more than 20 printings and sold more than two million copies!).  The subtitle is "A comic chronicle of innocents abroad".  I have just started it, but I think I am going to really enjoy it.  It already reminds me of Helene Hanff's books or the Auntie Mame series by Patrick Dennis. I rarely use the word "delightful" for anything, but it could easily be applied to this book.  Skinner and Kimbrough set out for Europe in the 20s when they were about nineteen.  Per the inside book flap, "This nostalgic and innocent book is a marvelous voyage, so bright with life and comedy and an air of happy coincidence that it's very hard to put down, and nearly impossible to forget."  Perfect vacation reading, I'd say!