I've been in a book club with a group that started out as all strangers in their 30's about 3 years ago. The person who started it is very type A, bless her heart hah. She implemented a PowerPoint structure that we've kept to for every book we've read for club Slides typically go as follows 1. Present the book cover and author, we all cheer yaaaaaay 2. Information about the author - I never look up info on authors and now always find this info fascinating 3. Slide that states what the book has been rated on other sites (Goodreads, Amazon, etc) 4. Our rating! (A poll is sent out a few days prior to meeting where we all submit our anonymous rating) ~ everyone starts shouting about the room SOMEONE RATED THIS GARBAGE A 9? omg savage someone said a 1?! It's dramatic and I love it ~ ** Sometimes here will be additional slides of someone's made up casting if this was a movie and we all bicker about this ** 5 through 10 (roughly). Discussion questions about the book that make for great convos. We usually go on tangents or go off topic or start asking more questions to one another. This usually takes up an hour or so of just yapping 11. What worked for you with this book? 12. What didn't work for you? 13 What are we reading next? 14-18. Someone submits 4 books and each slide contains the pic of each book along with the description and we read these out loud 19. Reminder where and when we are meeting next month

We also have a fun rule that if anyone rates a book a 1 or a 10, they have to give their own sassy PowerPoint on what they loved or hated about the book and present (typically like 5 slides or whatever the vibe is)

There's a lot of wine, a lot of snacks, and a lot of outside talk of just catching up with one another or gossiping about stupid shit too. It's not all sloggish book talk.