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Fun memoir about two Iowan college students having adventures and misadventures in Manhattan towards the end of World War II. They get to goggle at celebrities, almost get swept out to the ocean at Jones beach, and are part of the wild celebration of VJ day at Times Square.

I was a little disappointed because I expected it to be funnier, in the tradition of My Sister Eileen and Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. More smiles than laughs.

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I‘m using this one for NY in the Reading Around The States Challenge. It‘s also one of our book club‘s summer picks for the prompt “non-fiction by a female author.”

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A fun little read about BFFs from Iowa getting summer jobs at Tiffany in 1945.

I really enjoyed it

Taking a break from cleaning to feel the sun on my face and start Summer at Tiffany

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Marjorie Jacobson spent a summer working as a page at Tiffany‘s. 1945, Marjorie and her best friend move to New York from Iowa during a summer break from college to find jobs and experience the city. While the author shares funny stories adjusting to a new place and job, there‘s so much more significance to this one particular summer. Marjorie grows into adulthood; learns how to manage finances, dating, and decisions about her college future.

Cute memoir about two girls who go to NYC in the summer of 1945 to find work at Tiffany. Good nostalgia of this time in history right before Japan gives up their fight during WW11. Men at this time were the only ones allowed to sell Tiffany‘s items. The girls were hired as pages since young men were in service. Just a nice remembrance of a girl‘s summer of fun in NYC. Oh how times have changed!

I loved this book and couldn‘t put it down. It‘s a real life memoir about a young woman named Marjorie and her BFF Marty and the Summer they left Iowa to work at Tiffany together in New York. It had so much nostalgia and it transported you back in time to the mid 1940s. Every chapter ends w/ letters sent home to Marjorie‘s family. When the girls weren‘t working at Tiffany they were out with friends, bfs, and thinking about their future. #tiffany

Tagged this little gem about two young women in Manhattan in 1940s. Along with some of my pics of #NYC. We used to visit often during the 7 years my son lived there. Hope to visit again post-pandemic. #LitsySpringBreak

Definitely read this out of season, but when a book is this fun and charming the time of year doesn't matter.

In this memoir, the author recalls the summer she and her friend left Iowa for the Big Apple.

They got dream jobs at Tiffany and basically lived their best lives.

Takes place just as WW2 was ending and everyone was celebratory and full of hope.

I found this book to be a charming memoir of a time gone by and a personal look into what it was like to live in New York in the 40‘s during WWII.

So charming! I 💙 it! #summerreading #summerinthetitle

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⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 Tiffany's Robin Egg Blue is one of the most recognizable blues. Hart documents her summer of 1945 working as one of the first shop girls at the famed jeweler in New York City.

Magical! The best word to describe this story of two University of Iowa girls living and working in NY in the summer of 1945.

It was full of moments big and small - the first women to work on the floor of Tiffany, the WWII Pacific surrender, eating at the Automat (oh, how I wish I could have eaten there!), going on dates with midshipmen, seeing the ocean for the first time... Every minute was wonderful, I loved it!

Now on to home!

After my thoroughly enjoyable #BackpackEurope excursion, I flew back to the U.S. of A. for one last stop before heading home - spending a little time in NYC.

What better way to close out my summer trip than hearing Marjorie Hart retell the story of her amazing summer in that fabulous city in 1945. 😍❤️

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This book was sweet and charming, all about the summer in 1945 that two Iowa coeds got to live in New York for the summer and work at Tiffany. If you're not into gee-whiz innocent nostalgia, you won't be into this book. If you're into slice of life memoirs, you might enjoy it. Firsthand account of being a young woman at the end of WWII, living independently for the first time, and having lots of wholesome fun with her sorority sisters.

Just added to my currently-reading list. I couldn't resist.

These books (and my favorite shorts) definitely make me think of summer. Thanks for the fun giveaway @Liberty 🌊☀️🌴#sweetsummerstack

#Day11 #septemberphotochallenge From Tiffany blue to indigo and everything in between... so many #shadesofblue on my shelves and I didn't even touch my cookbooks. Old favorites and some from my TBR piles--I could keep going with blues, but every book that comes down, has to be put back. I found my funny little blue & white lady in an antique store in Seattle, years ago. She's made in Hungary & makes me smile. #somethingforsept #blue 📘💙📘

One of the sweetest books I have read in a long time. Nonfiction accounting of one of the first women to work on the floor at Tiffany New York City. Also what it was like to be in college in the 1940's-a very different time.