Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A baby is a little miracle. Now shut up.

Reading this book felt like being stuck next to a new parent on a long plane trip. Either you're bored because you don't have kids, or you're bored because it is never your turn to talk about YOUR kid, or you are so kid-oriented and passive that you simply LOVE to hear all about the mundane ordinary pleasures that someone else gets from THEIR kid. If you are in the latter category, or you are perhaps a single mom in recovery and born again in Christ, you will enjoy this book. Otherwise, skip it and go spend some time with your real-life friends who have kids. They need the company, and the baby stories are all pretty much the same. Lamott's diary style offers 'reality' but little art.