While we are waiting for some of our other members to answer these questions, I'll go ahead and give you my answers.  My name is Emily and I have been in the NoVA LitChicks for almost 6 years and as Sara would tell you, I don't make whoopie pies enough for our meetings.

1. What book are you currently reading? I am doing this book challenge this year and I am currently reading "Accidentally On Purpose" by Mary F. Pols as a book with an antonym in the title and I am listening in my car to "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline as my book set in the future.
2. Most memorable book from childhood? - I remember reading the entire "Little House on the Prarie" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder with my mom and my sister every night before bed. 
   
3. What are you favorite genres to read? - I like to read a lot of historical fiction, especially when mashed with romance and mystery.
4. How do you read (i.e. library vs. purchase, electronic vs. physical book, audio)? -  I read a lot on the metro so I own a lot of kindle books.  When I do road trips I like to listen to audiobooks.
5. Where is your favorite place to read? - I find it really easy to read while commuting, but I also like reading on my bed during the day.
6. What book character would you most like to have dinner with? - I would love to have dinner with my bestie Danielle and invite Anne Shirley and her bestie Diana Barry from the Anne of Green Gables series.
7. What do you read for guilty pleasure? - Veronica Mars fanfiction.  Some of the fanfiction writers are so crazy good, possibly better than Rob Thomas (the creator of Veronica Mars) himself.
8. Favorite thing to drink while reading? - Hot Chocolate.
9. Favorite author? - I adore Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote "Eat, Pray, Love".  I also really enjoy Lauren Willig who wrote the Pink Carnation mystery series.
10. Favorite book club read? - With the LitChicks, my favorite book has been "Moloka'i" by Alan Brennert, but with book clubs in general, my favorites have been either "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri  or "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger.

So last Wednesday we held our February meeting where we discussed the book "How To Be a Woman" by Caitlin Moran.  

I think it would be safe to say that the club had trouble connecting to this book.  When asked if anybody liked the book, I don't think anybody raised their hand.  A few people even said that they gave up reading it after the first few chapters.

It's not that this book didn't have good points.  Many of the topics Moran talks about led to some very interesting conversations (especially the chapters about deciding to have children), but most of those conversations were not really centered about what she specifically wrote.  Overall, we felt that Moran's book really wasn't the guidebook to be a woman in general, but more of a guidebook to be a woman like her.  

I wish I had a more eloquent review for the site, but there's really not that much to say.    Most of us gave the book a one or a two stars on Goodreads.  Hopefully we will have more to say on next month's book.