SUNDAY STYLES

A Father-Daughter Bond, Page by Page – All parents should read with their kids, but this family took it to the next level with “The Streak”: 3,218 nights of reading in a row. This is one of the most heartwarming parent-child rituals I’ve encountered, and it only slightly borders on weird (mainly the part where the daughter and her friends would stop home in the middle of their night out so that The Streak could continue). I could see myself doing something like this with my future children.

N.Y. / REGION

His Offense: Taking 2 Seats on a Nearly Empty Train – I don’t live in New York, but that doesn’t prevent me from enjoying the well-written local stories like this one. Am I crazy to find stuff like this interesting? Please give me your thoughts on this matter.

NATIONAL

Math Expert Wins Wealth, if He Accepts – There’s something very intriguing about eccentric mathematical geniuses. Any chance he’s as hot as Russell Crowe?

SUNDAY BUSINESS

The Case for Financial Reinvention – I just finished reading Raj Patel’s “The Value of Nothing” today, so it was interesting reading about a like-minded book called “The Road From Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back On Top.” Both books call for a rethinking of the free-market system. Both books revisit Smith and Keynes and question the efficient-market hypothesis. Both propose a new way of thinking about the U.S.’s role in the global economy. It sounds like VoN does a better job of it, though.