The Bird's Nest

I have found it difficult to finish The Bird's Nest. Not just because it's so weird, and dated. But because I have a terrible tendency to rip books to shreds, literally. The book completely fell apart and I would have had to collect the last loose 40 or so pages and number them.
I did the same thing to Faulkner's The Sound and the Furybut in the case of that book I just had to finish it. I even then read an online version with a key so I could understand it.
I didn't have that same passion for Shirley Jackson's book, although I did want to know what the significance of the bird's nest in the story actually was. Something clearly happened on a beach with a bird's nest to the main character that caused her personality to fracture.
I made the mistake of buying a used copy with really small print in both cases. Perhaps if I had just invested in a larger print copy I could have saved both paperback's lives and my eyesight.
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill Houseis definitely on my list of rereads, and eventually I must find out what happened on the beach with the bird's nest, so I suppose I'll have to get another copy, as I have long since decluttered the last one into the trash.