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Flying by the Seat of My Pants

Hey! Oh! Ooooo. You picked me up! How sweet of you.... Oh what, I just wrote this whole thing and you expect me to write more words? Fine. Well inside what you're going to get is honesty and bad jokes. Some tears, fears, and CRAZY years. All rolled up into one insane ride. From shootings to births and mental illness to boot. Cancer, houses burning down, chronic illness... You want it we got it. It's real. It's raw. It's all the stuff nobody wants to talk about with a redheaded attitude, and a really bad sense of humor. But what can you do? This is me. This is my life.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2020

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Hannah Corbin

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900 reviews104 followers
June 20, 2020
Don’t let your pride get in the way of what you need to do to make sure your child can go as far as they need to go.
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Flying By the Seat of My Pants is a memoir by the author, Hannah Corbin.
She talks about Al the ups and downs in her life, her friendships, religion, illnesses, heartbreaks everything. But, within all that she still manages to add a little bit of humour to the book to make the heavy topics seem a little bit light-hearted.
But there's a lot that's a lot to handle and through the pages, I felt for her. I always say, things happen for a reason, but reading about one instance after another just broke my heart.
Reading these types of books I try to envision what would I have done if I was in her situation, how wouldbi have handled things?
But I genuinely don't know because if reading about it can break me, experiencing it would crush me and I'm impressed by her courage to push through it all.
Even at the end of it all, she still made jokes, still saw the bright side of everything and somehow that increased my respect for her even more.
During the course of this whole book she talks about how the guiding hand of God got her outof some of the worst situations and blessed her and her family, but like I always say, read this book even if you don't believe in Jesus or God in general, but read it because these are the storiesthar deserved to be heard.
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Rated 9/10
Melina L.
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1,490 reviews62 followers
September 21, 2020
Flying by the seat of my pants
There is no need to read the autobiography of famous or successful people to get some inspiration or motivation, but in my opinion you can get inspiration from normal people's life and their hardships too.
So this book is not just a story ,it's a life story of author's her own and it really need guts to write down your story because there is being chances that you got judged by people or misunderstood too but Hannah makes it possible and she penned down her life very boldly and beautifully, she never tried to hide anything or fantasize anything during this book. She wrote everything about her life, starting from her childhood to homeschooling, her family to her boyfriends and her depression to her chronic illness.
This book gives me so many reasons to laugh , be sad and cry too at the same time. Her life is like a whole rollercoaster ride which she writes very beautifully and this book is like an inspiration for many women that no matter how broke or broken you are, keep your hope alive .
Language is very easy and the book is divided into different chapters that make it very easy to go through the book.
Recommended to everyone  
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49 reviews10 followers
July 20, 2020
★★★★★!! Oh yes, this gets a 5 star from me!

I was graciously gifted a copy from the author, Hannah Corbin in exchange for an honest review. So I want to start by thanking Hannah. Thank you so so much for this book. I enjoyed every single minute of it.


Let me start by saying this book is an autobiography of the authors life. I don't read that many autobiographies sometimes, I'll admit, but I have to say I am so very happy I read this one. This book felt like I was sitting down with the author, face to face in a tiny cafe somewhere, as she told me her life story.

The author just has this way with writing this book that it's like she's speaking to you. It feels very much like a conversation you're having with her. Which I found to be really interesting. I suppose of a lot of that has to do with this being an audiobiography, which like I said I don't read that often, so maybe this writing style might not be something new or interesting to you, but for me I found it extremely intriguing. There is so much emotion coming from the author that you forget there isn't a lot of details written around her surroundings.

And speaking of emotion..hold on to your hats because this book has got it. I applaud the author for her honesty, for her raw emotions, and mostly her bravery. It cannot have been easy to revisit the things from her past that quite frankly are heartbreaking moments, for the second time so that she could write this book. There are a lot of heartbreaking moments in this book. I think we can all agree that life can be heartbreaking, and messy and questionable and at some point in your life you might have come to a moment when you wonder, why? Or what is it all about? Hannah certainly does. I know I have.

Yet, the author does something incredible with those heartbreaking, something that I'm not sure a lot of people can do. She has this unremarkable laissez-faire attitude about it all. And instead of letting these things completely break her, or going about the rest of her life with a sullen attitude towards the world, she keeps her faith, and she makes you laugh.

Doing that my friends, is no easy task. Yet the author seems to do it time and time again. At one point, I stopped myself, and I was like "Did I just laugh out loud? And to a joke, about something that's super tragic?" Like how? What? How does the author do that? Oh yes, it happened. Now get ready for it, because the emotions in this book are going to give you whiplash. One moment, you're going to be upset and heartbroken, and depending on your feelings the day you read this, you might find yourself crying. (I'll admit, it happened.) So now, you're side, and you're just like, what? how? This is hard.. and then WHAM the next thing you know the author is cracking jokes making you laugh. Genially laugh. That has to be one of the most unrated gifts in society today. People like the author, who can make you laugh the way she does in this book, given the circumstance of whats happening, is a straight up gift from God. And I personally this those people deserve way more credit, and I don't know, maybe should be the ones to be one the news telling us all the crappy things going on in life, so they have follow it up with some jokes that'll make us feel like crappy. (Just a rambling thought)

Anyways, it's safe to say I love this book. I'd loved the rollercoaster ride of emotions (even the sad ones) and I just think the author is so brave and that this is a story a lot of people should read, because it really makes you stop and think about the things in your life. And it makes you think about how maybe you could handle things that aren't so great. And that despite how horrible something is right now, there is always going to be a better day that follows.



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207 reviews5 followers
June 27, 2020
Heart touching story

Book : Flying By The Seat Of My Pants
Author : Hannah Corbin


🎀This book is something very different which I have read. This contains the life story of Author, Hannah Corbin. You can say it is an autobiography of the author and I fell in love with the story. This one is not a short read and contains so many chapters based on the life instances in chronological order. Loved the names of each chapters.🎀


❣Honestly, when I started reading this book like for about few chapters it was looking like a common story. But as I went ahead the chronological order, I cannot deny the fact that this story of Hannah's is something very unique and motivational. I loved the fact that she shared her life's true experiences . Really, this requires guts to pen down each and everything (ups and downs) in a book and share it with public without thinking that how others will react to it or start judging you by the story. ❣


📖This book contains the incidents of happiness, sadness and it is truely based on the fact that one should believe in god as he is the creator and had already written your life's story. Whatever is happening in life, you do not have to loose faith in God. For sure, if he sends you on Earth there could be some motive and he is always there for us. The second thing which I loved in this book is how she struggles in her life and never gave up. She is suffering from many dangerous diseases like cancer, depression , migraine , etc and had surgeries as well. The way she explained how she and her husband Kevin got married after a lot of struggle and how they are blessed now with two childern even after having miscarriages. These all incidents are truely heart touching ànd inspiring that one should just go woth the flow and always believe in god.📖

🔥While reading this story , I was literally thinking about Micah and Ember (their children) that when they will read this book or when they will come to know this story , how blessed and proud they will feel for their parents. I cannot explain each and every incident oveŕ here as it will ruin the true beauty of the author's book.I would love to read the second book from Hannah now. I am surely recommending this book. Go for it!!🔥
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135 reviews17 followers
August 23, 2020
Book Name: Flying by the Seat of My Pants


Genre: Memoir


Summary: Author Hannah in this wonderful book offers her own story, her life struggles, ups and downs and everything she has ever gone through in such an unapologetic and interesting manner which sometimes made me happy for her and at times I did feel sad for the trouble she went through. This book is her life story, written and put out honestly.


My Opinion: I loved this book so much, I never read a memoir which was this good and was compiled so beautiful, each chapter made me more aware about the amazing person she is. I really loved how things were honest, there was no exaggeration and dragging, they say non - fiction is boring but this story proves non fiction can be equally fun and insightful. Hannah's life wasn't easy, time was too tough for her but she never gave up, she is so motivating because her faith and belief in God kept her calm and sane during hard times. The book also involved many witty and sarcastic moments which were so amazing to read. It's filled with happy - sad moments and a little bit of drama. I find it totally worth reading.


Good and Bad: The language is so easy, also I could really relate with her and saw her as a friend through the entire book. I don't think there is anything bad, I really liked it and had a very great time reading it.


My favorites from the book:

My favorite lesson from the book is, it taught me to never give up. Thanks for it Hannah.


Target Audience: Everyone, every person looking for a good non fiction which is fun, motivational and intresting. But still a bit of maturity is required to understand it.


What to expect: Expect an extraordinary story of a ordinary girl who overcomes all her problems. Expect a lot of emotional stuff in the story, you will definitely connect with it.


Final verdict: I truly had an amazing time reading it and I think her story not just is strong and bold but also deserves to be heard. Please read it.


Rating: 4.5 /5
399 reviews36 followers
September 14, 2020
If you think your life sucks just because you had a bad day you probably haven’t experienced life yet.
When I got to know about this book I was impressed by the title of the book “Flying by the seat of my pants” isn’t it something unique and catchy? I personally liked It a lot and it is usually said that the first Impression is probably the last impression. The title and cover are the perfectly relevant to the content of the book.
The book is basically the true story of the Author – Hannah Corbin. It is an autobiography but the way she has presented it really felt like some fiction. When I started reading the book, I was lost like reading the overview I got to know that it is about the author but I couldn’t believe till I read almost half of the book. The book has been written in every emotion and it completely translate it to the readers like there were moments where I was literally laughing and there were moments where I felt like crying and there was so much going on in the story (In the life of the author). I would like to say that I am a Fan of this author after reading this book. I personally learnt a lot from the authors like and it was more of an inspiring book. Like starting from a slight smile converting into laugh into tears then standing strong and inspiring other OMG I haven’t really read any book like this before. I am sure if you read this book, you’ll see a change and after affects of reading the book. I personally felt an effect like earlier I used to get discouraged and feel sad just when the things were not going y way but now, I know that’s life, you have to be a warrior to achieve something and most importantly never stop believing in yourself and GOD definitely. Well the book has a really nice vocab and you would not find it difficult to read. At last I would like to thank the author for giving me such an experience through the book.
90 reviews1 follower
June 20, 2020
The book "Flying by the Seat of my Pants" by Hannah Corbin is an amazing book which is about a Christan teenager girl who experiences the good and worst days in her life, like from love to a very curious disease like cancer in her life. This book is full of mystery, tragedy, love, emotions and every little experiences what a normal human being can experience in life. By reading this book tears may also rolled down your cheeks and then you feel stomaches by laughing out loud. As this book seriously shows you the reality of life. This book will show you the true colours of life like how cruel it could be and how kind it is sometimes. Highly recommended for those who really want to know that, what are the circumstances in a life of a woman or, how a girl is transformed into a woman and what are changes does she undergoes during this process and everything related to this you'll find in this book.
47 reviews1 follower
July 18, 2020
Written Review Of "Flying By The Seat Of My Pants" By Hannah Corbin.

Publisher : Hannah Corbin
Pages : 276
Genre : Christianity. , Autobiography

First Of All I Would Like To Appreciate The Author As It Takes So Much To Put Out Own Life In Public

About Story, At Start It Was A Normal Story But As We Go More Into The Story The Story Becomes Much More Interesting It Has Fun Elements, Emotional Elements All The Things Which We Can Expected From This Book By Looking At The Cover Of Book.

Its Tell You About The Higher Power Means God Who Had Created This World And Everyone Has A Thing Which We Had To Do In It. Everyone Is Here For A Reason. And We Should Always Have Faith In It.

Talking About The Pace & Language, The Story Developed At A Middle Pace & Author Has Used Easy Language So Even If You're A Beginner You Can Easily Understand It. The Vocabulary Of This Book Is Also Good.

The Story Is So Engaging That Once You Start Reading I Bet You Can't Put It Down Easily.

The Cover Of The Book Is Also Very Cool. I Really Liked The Cover & I Highly Recommend This Book To All The Readers.
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My Ratings 4.5/5
239 reviews15 followers
October 12, 2020
⭐The novel is essentially the real storey of the protagonist, Hannah Corbin. It's an autobiography, but it always felt like fiction in the way she described it. I was lost when I started reading the novel, like reading the summary that I got to know it was about the author, but I couldn't believe it until I read almost half of the book.

⭐When I started reading this novel, it looked like a typical tale for about a few chapters. But I can't ignore the fact that this Hannah 's storey is something really special and inspiring as I went ahead with the chronological order. I liked the fact that she shared the true experiences of her life. This really takes guts to pen down everything (ups and downs) in a book and share it with the public without worrying how anyone would react to it or start judging you by the storey.

⭐This book includes the events of happiness, grief, and it is genuinely focused on the fact that since he is the maker, you should believe in God and have already written the storey of your life. Whatever happens in life, there is no need for you to lose trust in God.

⭐What I liked about this book is how she struggles and never gives up in her life. She has many dangerous illnesses such as cancer, depression, migraine, etc., and even underwent surgery.

⭐The book has a very good vocabulary, and you won't find it hard to read.
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1,401 reviews76 followers
June 28, 2020
QOTD: Do you love reading Memoir? For me, I love to read about the life of other people and their experiences.

Flying By The Seats Of My Pants is the first book of the author Hannah Corbin. It is a memoir. The book is a collection of thirty three chapters that describes the ups and downs in the life of Hannah.

The author has discussed about her fears, chronic illness, love, marriage, family, loss, craziness, etc in this book. The author took all this well in her life due to her faith in God. The jokes by her broke me into laughter while reading.

I would recommend my fellow readers to read this amazing book. The cover page of the book is really nice. I really enjoyed reading the story of Hannah. It was a roller coaster ride for me.
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2,739 reviews161 followers
June 29, 2020
Do you love reading autobiography? If yes, you should pick this one.

This is the first time that I have read memoir. The journey of Hannah was not smooth. It was full of good and bad experiences. Some incidents will break your heart while reading. On the other hand, some incidents are so funny that you couldn't stop laughing.

I really admire the author to share her struggles with all of us. Inspite of going through so much things, at the end she did quite well.

My favourite line from the book is:
"You never know what you've got until it's gone".

When I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. I finished it in a single sitting. The writing style is admirable and I am enthralled to read this.
47 reviews
June 20, 2020
“Flying by the seat of my pants" by Hannah Corbin is such a marvellous book. This story shared the reality and actually life experience that there are both good and worst phases of life .here a thirteen years old Christan girl face both good and bad life experiences .the phase of Love is good and on the other side she was struggling with painful cancer disease that's the worst one. This book carries emotions and this will make you laugh sometime and cry too.because the circumstances are actual.and I would love that this kind of book will read by the lots and lots of people to know better life experiences.
245 reviews2 followers
September 22, 2020
Book: Flying By The Seat Of My Pants
Ratings: 4.5/5
Author: Hannah Corbin

This book describes the life story of Author, Hannah Corbin. It has described the good and bad days of her life. Some instances will surely make your heart breakout. The book carries a great amount of emotions. One needs huge courage to pen down it’s own story.


This book shows the hard reality of life which people go through. This book gives me so many reasons to laugh, be sad and cry too at the same time. This book is highly recommended to everyone out there, specially to all the girls out there.
Lastly, I would like to thank the Author Hannah Corbin for coming up with such an amazing book. I wish her all the best for the upcoming books.
69 reviews1 follower
June 20, 2020
Life is a cycle of many ups and downs. Some leave the troubles and try to move on and are left with no stories to talk about. Some face them and create a history to talk about. This book is all about it. An autobiography. Her life took many turns. She faces so many tragedies starting from health issues, fights, and every other hardship we never want to experience. This is a story of how she faces it all and it is filled with extreme sarcasm at places as well as humorous.Read this book to know how the author faced her unfortunate and hard events and made a life.....
21 reviews
June 20, 2020
Ups and downs in the life of a "Christian" woman explained in a beautiful way. She has to go through various instances in her life that bring out the feelings of joy , happiness, gloom and sometimes fright also.She has mentiined certain scenarios about which normal people resist to talk such as chronic illness, cancer...But she takes it as a part of life and neber regrets the person she is...A beautiful book, a must read for people with low self esteem and low self confidence...It just advices us to take life as it is.....
69 reviews
June 22, 2020
This book is a memoir of a small town Chritsian woman's experience with life, love and tragedy. Hannah Cobin does an amazing job by writing this book. It I filled with mystery and every little experience a woman has to grow through. The transformation from being a girl to lady like. The emotions are real. I believe a life of a woman is much more of a compromise and sacrifice in this society. Highly recommended book to all the girls to know how to stand head held high in all times. You might even shed tears reading this one!
11 reviews
June 1, 2020
This novel is autobiography of a small town girl whoes religion is Cristian , this girl experience many things in life such as love too but also she goes to tragedy !!like tragedy what , tragedy is cancer here a girl fron small town when experience things like thus what happens!? So no spoilers I wanna give you should try reading this book as it is way more interesting than any other autobiography....
49 reviews1 follower
June 1, 2020
An honest take on love, life, family and all the ups and downs that come along the way. This book is such a candid and relatable piece for all the people who have faced setbacks and enjoyed the bumpy ride through life. It is amusing and it's real. This book will give you a packet full of energy. This is a must read!
53 reviews1 follower
June 1, 2020
Life through the eyes of a redhead living in the countryside. You'll experience everything as the protagonist takes you on a ride worth remembering. Love, loss and grief with an incredible sense of humour. The language used is raw enough to wench out your emotions and move you to tears.
31 reviews
June 1, 2020
A beautiful book full of emotions and feelings. It will make you laugh and make you cry. It shows that it is okay to not be okay sometimes. It's funny, it's real. It got something everyone will relate to. I highly recommend it.
23 reviews
June 1, 2020
A bouquet of emotions very well written in this book. Humour which is the essence of life is well embodied in this book. An encapsulating read when ch will keep you hooked to read more. Touching all emotional chords
41 reviews
June 1, 2020
What a lovely book! You feel all kinds of emotions going through the pages of this book. You're happy and laughing then you're sad and crying! This book is so raw and beautifully written. It shows the reality of life that life is hard and it comes with obstacles and problems. Read the book to know more!
9 reviews
June 4, 2020
This book is the autobiography of a small town Christian woman's experiences with life, love and tragedy. She has soo much experiences in her life from Honesty and bad jokes to Some tears, fears, and CRAZY years. All rolled up into one insane ride of her life , i found it very interesting book this is really amazing , i recommend it to everyone please give it a read guys .
49 reviews3 followers
June 20, 2020
The story is a autobiography and memoir of an Christan women who belong to a small village , her life was full of wears and tears , i am amazed to see her insanity , she had a bad Sense of humour , but she found herself perfect and enjoys every moment of life !
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May 7, 2020
AReal true Joy .I laughed I cried .... I felt the emotions !! I could feel her pain , Her warmth , her fears and happiness... spoken from the heart Beautiful book beautifully written
15 reviews4 followers
June 1, 2020
An awesome read on the life, love and tragedy of the life of a woman, which brings humor, seriousness, and all the real and raw feelings with it.
A must read for all! You are going to love it!!
57 reviews2 followers
June 1, 2020
This book is more than just an autobiography. This is a story about small town redhead girl who goes through what a common day to day person does but it's so well written you'll feel like it's a wonderful well balanced story. But it's also very raw and emotional, I really loved it.
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4 reviews
May 7, 2020
A mouthy redheads take on love, life, family, and the bumps that came along the way. Showing that it's okay to not be okay and tackling the hard subjects that nobody wants to talk about. Its real its raw and its funny as hell! It's got a little something everyone can relate to an even more for the people in the back who've been left out.
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2,186 reviews102 followers
June 22, 2020

🌻Flying by the Seat of My Pants🌻
Honestly, what got me to read this book was the title and cover, I knew this book would be fun and adventurous and so it was. This is one of those memoirs that felt so real to me, it's the authors's own story, story of her life and her bitter sweet experiences with life. It's something that has built her to the person she is now, life wasn't always fun for her, it was full of ups and downs but it was she who always took it positively and had faith in the almighty.
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It's so hard to keep the fun element in memoirs but to my surprise I had moments when I couldn't stop laughing, also moments when I just wanted to cry, while going through her journey I felt I was having one of my own. The author also discussed some important topics, the concepts talked were relatable since we all go through them someday but overall I feel it was an amazing read where you can get her life experiences in just few pages, amazing isn't?
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Go read it because it's freaking beautiful.
Rating: 4.25🌟
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