ILLCONCEIVED: Great review by Mary Eberstadt of Naomi Wolf's new book Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood. Eberstadt describes the book as a "wide-ranging monologue of complaint about almost every aspect of pregnancy and birth, including pregnancy handbooks, weight gain, cesarean sections, episiotomies, cold hands, 1980s medical-office architecture, maternity clothes, suburbia, childbirth classes, hospital decorating schemes, obstetrical checkups, fetal monitors, anesthesia, diaper bags, park benches, and much more."

This seems to be the consensus in the reviews. Ian Sansom described Wolf in The Guardian as unbearable. An accompanying interview with Wolf ("Just look at a playground. What do playgrounds say to women? They say - 'you know what, just fuck you! You haven't anywhere to change dirty diapers - fuck you, deal with it.") prompted one Guardian reader to write to the editor:

How long do we have to listen to middle-class women moaning about looking after their kids? I stay at home to look after my kids. Hard work, but not as hard I bet as being married to Naomi Wolf or one of her pals.