That part about her trying to read Proust was pretty much spot on to me trying to read Finnegan's Wake... I love it as an artistic statement and really wanted to like it, but fuck it if that isn't an impossible book to read. I went through the first 70 pages or thereabouts before going "alright, I'm not really understanding a single thing. I don't think anything actually happens and the language is scuffed to shit. Not going to bother..."