I'm in a weekly book club that averages 6-8 people. It's run by some friends of mine who own a used book store, and it takes place at their store in a side room with a table and chairs. VERY casual. Most people just wear normal street clothes or whatever they wore to work that day. Some bring food, since it's around dinner time. The store has snacks and free water bottles. Some people do take notes, either in the margins or a separate notebook. Other people use color-coded tabs. Some take photos of their favorite passages. Some don't take any notes at all. We sit and talk for about 60-90 minutes about the assigned portion for the past week, which is usually about 100-120 pages.

I love it, and it's become a highlight of my week! We fawn over characters we love, rant on ones we hate, snark on questionable plotlines, speculate about what's going to happen next, create our own head-canons about characters hooking up, construct over-the-top conspiracy theories that would make Shyamalan cringe... and frequently get sidetracked. Most of the books so far have been pretty light fiction. But there are a few memoirs and historical fiction on the list for later in the year.