{"id":35823,"date":"2026-10-24T13:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35823"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:26:17","slug":"book-report-batman-mystery-of-the-batwoman-by-louise-simonson-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/24\/book-report-batman-mystery-of-the-batwoman-by-louise-simonson-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <em>Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman<\/em> by Louise Simonson (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mysteryofthebatwoman.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I cannot find this book in a good book hunting post, which probably means it came from the culling of my youngest son&#8217;s bookshelves earlier this year.  After finishing <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/22\/book-report-pleasures-of-the-porch-by-darla-price-bowman-maureen-lamarca-1997\/\" target=\"_new\">Pleasures of the Porch<\/a><\/em>, I really wasn&#8217;t eager to jump back into one of the other, longer books I&#8217;m working on (<em>Caesar and Christ<\/em>, the Edna St. Vincent Millay collection I just picked up, and Susan Keene&#8217;s <em>Tattered Wings<\/em> which I am not finding compelling) whilst half of my family room remains tented off and depressing.  So I grabbed this book. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a youth-based novelization of an animated film.  In it, a mysterious figure styling herself as the Batwoman is interfering with a triumvirate of Gotham City&#8217;s underworld figures (the only badged one being The Penguin) who are building sophisticated and science-fictiony arms to export to a middle-European country in conflict.  She blows up a rolling truck, she blows up their factory.  The real Batman tries to pin down her identity but just when he thinks he&#8217;s got it, he sees the Batwoman and his suspect at the same place.  The triumvirate summons Bane to take care of the Batwoman, but he cuts himself into the action.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s maybe just a touch simpler than a men&#8217;s adventure paperback, but not a bad read.  A comic book story, which you don&#8217;t find in modern comic books (in my experience) which are all about the comic art and not so much plot.  So&#8230;.Yay?  And it counts as a book in my annual list, so I&#8217;ve got that going with me.<\/p>\n<p>When I was tossing my stacks for something like this, I came across a Superman title and several collections of cartoon books which look familiar.  I&#8217;ll have to double-check to make see if I&#8217;ve already read\/reported\/added them to the book database.  Or&#8230;.  I can read them and find out afterwards.  Books is books.  They all count in pursuit of the annual total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot find this book in a good book hunting post, which probably means it came from the culling of my youngest son&#8217;s bookshelves earlier this year. After finishing Pleasures of the Porch, I really wasn&#8217;t eager to jump back into one of the other, longer books I&#8217;m working on (Caesar and Christ, the Edna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35824,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823\/revisions\/35824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}