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    Saint Mick: My Journey From Hardcore Legend to Santa's Jolly Elf
    Saint Mick: My Journey From Hardcore Legend to Santa's Jolly Elf
    Saint Mick: My Journey From Hardcore Legend to Santa's Jolly Elf
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    Saint Mick: My Journey From Hardcore Legend to Santa's Jolly Elf

    Written by Mick Foley

    Narrated by Mick Foley

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    From beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author and WWE Hall-of-Famer Mick Foley comes a Yuletide tale like no other. After a lifetime of putting his body on the line to entertain his dozens (and dozens!) of fans, the Hardcore Legend is paying the price-physically and emotionally. When the final bell on Mick's career tolls, not in the ring, but in a neurologist's office, his future seems far from merry and bright. Until Mick is given the chance to become Santa Claus-not dress up, not pretend, but become Santa-allowing him to rediscover the joy of performing.

    Fully committing to his new mission, Mick details the drastic measures he takes to keep the Christmas magic alive for his young children, as well as the many children he meets in his travels who are in need of some Christmas Spirit. In order to fully embrace his new red-suited responsibilities, Mick enters the fascinating world of the Santa subculture, where he hones his Christmas craft while worrying he'll be excommunicated from the Santa world for, among other things, his Santa character being run over by a motor vehicle on Christmas Eve on WWE television. But with the help of an unlikely elf-eight-time Grammy Award winner Norah Jones-Mick learns valuable lessons about the real power and responsibility of wearing the red suit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781541479654
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    Mick Foley

    Mick Foley grew up on Long Island, New York. He is the author of the number one New York Times bestsellers: Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling and Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks. He is also the author of two other children's books, Halloween Hijinx and Christmas Chaos. Foley wrestled professionally for over fifteen years and was the three-time World Wrestling Entertainment Champion. Foley lives with his wife and four children on Long Island.

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    • 5/5
      Mick is a wizard... well, an esteemed elf at weaving this story. I love how it is a completely different look at Mick Foley, yet another face of foley. He does it with levity, brevity and just his personality shines through. His tangents and commentary are great. He is the genuine article, and you can tell he cares deeply about his work as a Santa Ambassador, and all those in his life.
    • 5/5
      Amazing read/listen for the holiday season -- I've read other of Mick's books and this is by far my favourite. The most emotionally resonant. The last chapter sums up Mick's commitment to "The Red Suit" beautifully.
    • 3/5
      Technically finished this yesterday right before I took it back to the library but didn't get a chance to write this up until now. (This probably falls in the 3.5 category more than 3 or 4 stars.)

      This was book #90 for the year for me and completes my reading challenge for the year as well. (Just in the....Mick of time.....budum-dish......)

      This was another good autobiography from Mick Foley. And a different and interesting one from him, that's nothing like his previous (obviously since this is about Santa and being a volunteer Santa Claus, whereas his previous autobiographies mentioned his love for Christmas and Santa but were much more linear and about his life especially his wrestling.)

      This was fun, very interesting look at his time and work as a volunteer ("ambassador") Santa. It was fun to see him mention Hershey and HersheyPark's Candylane (he's a big fan of Hersheypark). There were a lot of editing errors in this, and at times it could have been cut down and you could tell it was just his rambling and things weren't edited correctly (a paragraph he basically writes twice with just slightly different sentences back to back, maybe one was supposed to be removed before going to printing, not sure.)