Pickleball began in the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, when Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum set out to entertain their families with a simple backyard game. Using a badminton court, ping-pong paddles, and a perforated plastic ball, they created something entirely new. What started as a casual afternoon experiment quickly grew into […]
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June 2026 Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland In this story we follow the life of Lisette, a young Parisian woman who is forced torelocate to a small Provence village when her husband's only living relative, an oldgrandfather who reared him, writes to tell them he is failing and needs Andre to care forhim. This is […]
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Social Chairman Kati M has organized a trip by train to the San Diego County Fair. We will leave from the Carlsbad Village Coaster Station at 9:23 am; Tickets are $23 for Coaster and Fair Admission. See flyer below. Click here to RSVP to KatiM@thewomansclubofvista.org
July 2026 Crying in “H” Mart by Michelle Zauner. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner provesherself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart,she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene,Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, […]
August 2026 Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos tomake it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severedepression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life tothe fullest. Furiously Happy is about depression and […]
Sept, 2026 James by Percival Everett A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowingand darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view, soon to be a featurefilm by Steven Spielberg. When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separatedfrom his wife and […]
October 2026 The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Vampire Slaying by GradyHendrix Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about awomen's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their smallSouthern town. Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller, her husband is aworkaholic, her teenage kids have […]