Have map - might stand chance of finding country.

So I've got me a map of the world, a very big one and we may have to build a wall to put it on.
Essential though because it quickly became apparent that, from the backwoods of Devon and some thirty-six years since my last triple geography lesson on a Friday afternoon with Miss Cassell (her of the very tight little perm), my world geography was not quite up to snuff. Miss Cassell famed for urging us girls only ever to attempt one thing at a time in class and thus do it properly, so sort of fell into a pit of her own digging when she used to dictate at speed endless statistics about Monsoon Asia and urge us to listen carefully at the same time as we tried to write it all down.
How cruel we were and I shall expect an e mail from The Latin Teacher telling me so, except we wouldn't have dared try it on with TLT.
The Levant? Sounded quite romantic but where was it exactly? Didn't know with any precision, what a disgrace, but I'm there now and wandering around Israel.
Map is up on wall and will gather dots or stars or whatever I can find as I land in each country and I have set up a new typelist over here <<<<<<<< at the moment to give you a clue about where I am and what I'm reading as I travel, latest reads at the top.
It's all a bit of a flit around the Med at the moment.
All reading suggestions and travelling companions very welcome, tag along whenever or let me know if I'm in your neighbourhood and there is a book I absolutely mustn't miss.
We can divert just about anywhere and I'll be in Australia in a couple of weeks for sure.
Like all good gap year travellers I'm doing a bit of forward planning, not too much because spontaneity will be the name of the game too but I want to find some unusual reading and I'm hoping to discover some good litblogs for the countries as I travel, so please wave those at me too and I've set up a list for them, might be over here <<<<<<< unless I've repacked the knapsack and shifted it over here >>>>>>>>>
One of the many sites helping me out copiously, though they are probably blissfully unaware of the fact, The Complete Review and their daily litblog at The Literary Saloon.
This has been one of my most consistently visited sites since that very first day we ever achieved a dial-up internet connection through a modem. Took hours and cost a fortune.Oh those carefree 90's, when every flash of  Tamar Valley lightning seemed to home in on our very exposed phone line, track along to the modem and kill it stone dead taking out a square foot of carpet for good measure.
Currently my reading eyes are like saucers and going in every possible direction.
Israel from what was on the shelves proved to be very blogendipitous because a suggestion came from a commentator, read Edeet Ravel, just as I was closing the final page of Ten Thousand Lovers by one and the same.I know Edeet now lives in Canada but she was born on an Israeli kibbutz and I wrote to her after being bowled over by her second novel, A Wall of Light also set in Israel. I haven't been disappointed by her first book either.
Hopefully I have a few books by Israeli authors on the way and I've also trekked across to Lebanon to see what was top of the best sellers there. Fascinating and I hope to have a copy of that any day.
Then I'm looking with one eye across to Egypt, because Mark Thwaite of ReadySteadyBook mentioned a book to me earlier in the year as his best read of the year to date and now it's come out as his top read for 2007.
In that case I have to read it yesterday.
I think I can just squeeze it into my travelling reading criteria, Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben. I know she lives in Dorset but I'm just loving this one about a war widow who heads back to Egypt after the Great War to see if she can track down her beloved horse Philomena, one of the thousands of horses requisitioned for Allenby's campaign in Palestine.
Now I have an eye on Turkey because whilst I'm here surely I should read some Orhan Pamuk?