Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, her 100th, is Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful. Hello Beautiful, the saga of the four Padavano sisters, working class Catholic Chicago girls trying to live up to parental and cultural expectations while at the same time pursuing independent lives, is an homage to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.  Little Women is still my favorite book of all time, so if there was an homage out there, I was going to read it.  I can’t say I read it with an open mind.  Indeed, I read it with a critical mind, the kind of mind Louisa May Alcott’s Marmee, who gifts her children Pilgrim’s Progress to guide their young moral…