sentences/grammar/style

Hi,

Are these sentences correct please? Is there another way to write them?

Thank you.


“It was in September, two months before she died. She had come as she did every week for tea time at my parents’. I didn’t like very much those ritual teas during which the conversation would go bogged down in the same topics (…) People don’t realize to what extent within families resources are found not to dissipate boredom but to increase it tenfolds.”

It sounded pretty natural to me - see my suggestions below.