I originally joined a meet-up book club about 7 years ago. And they're probably 10 to 15 people in it and it didn't seem to really meet often. But then there was a ice cream social made up and I ended up meeting some people there who are also book lovers. So now there are seven of us who meet regularly every month and it's been about 7 years or so. I don't think it's weird to have notes with you. With my little group we just talk about our personal lives, sometimes we have discussion questions printed from the internet about the book another times we just talk about what we liked and didn't like.